Glow

Is the airplane sweeping low?
Dropping leaflets down below.
Ho, ho, ho. what they read, what they read
[aw commation]
Is affecting you
Prince othello
[stays her glow]
Othello, the fellow, othello, othello
[down wine] pho-to, oh
[guess thats lee]
What does this mean to me?
Well, got the airplane sweeping low
Dropping photo of othello
The fellow, othello is gonna
Make you
Glow, glow, glow.
Glow, glow. glow.

song performed by Xtc
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Glow

Is the airplane sweeping low?
Dropping leaflets down below.
Ho, ho, ho. what they read, what they read
[aw commation]
Is affecting you
Prince othello
[stays her glow]
Othello, the fellow, othello, othello
[down wine] pho-to, oh
[guess thats lee]
What does this mean to me?
Well, got the airplane sweeping low
Dropping photo of othello
The fellow, othello is gonna
Make you
Glow, glow, glow.
Glow, glow. glow.

song performed by Xtc
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Othello: I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this;
Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

classic lines from Othello by William Shakespeare (1603)
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Desdemona: Heaven truly doth know it.
Othello: Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

classic lines from the play Othello, Act IV, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1603)
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A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

quote by Tim Roth
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I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.

quote by Ted Lange
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I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.

quote by Denzel Washington
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I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul.

quote by Kyle MacLachlan
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A Sign Of Weakness

Smitten with Seetha, Ravana was killed.
Smitten with Juliet, Romeo laid his life.
Smitten with suspicion, Othello killed his wife.
Is to be smitten a passion or weakness?

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Othello: My life upon her faith! — Honest Iago,
My Desdemona must I leave to thee.
I prithee, let thy wife attend on her,
And bring them after in the best advantage.

line from the play Othello, Act I, Scene 3, script by William Shakespeare (1603)
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Othello

Theatre is not his passion,
but once a year
As for a good lesson
he takes his wife to listen to “Othello”,
To see that jealous fellow,
for her to know –
husband can be strict
and makes his own verdict.

Larisa R Odessa, Ukraine)

poem by Larisa Rzhepishevska
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Vine is sturdier than trunk B

Rose can’t stand Cactus.
Lotus can’t bear Elephant.
Drowpati bore Bhima.
Desdimona bore Othello.
Feminism has much hidden strength.
27.11.2001, Pakd
[In Mahabarata, a Hindu Epic, drowpati is a princes and Bhima is one of her five husbands, a huge bodied mighty man.]

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Reward and punishment

A jealous Othello, an innocent Desdemona,
And a villain Iago, all played their parts
As per the scripts and directions, on the stage.
No one was hailed; No one was jailed.
The world is the stage on which we take parts
As Othellos, Desdimonas and Iagos.
Reward and punishment by God is a myth.
28.12.2000, Pmdi

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The Writer's Author

GOD had written a story
in a book called 'destiny'
all things and even not-a-things are listed
and won't be missed

even Shakespeare could write the beautiful romeo n Juliet,
the story of Othello, Hamlet
or even he could made the beautifullest sonnet
GOD had written about all writer and poet

GOD is writer's author

March 2009

poem by Arif Furqan
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A Colloquial Reply: To Any Newsboy

If you lay for Iago at the stage door with a brick
You have missed the moral of the play.
He will have a midnight supper with Othello and his wife.
They will chirp together and be gay.
But the things Iago stands for must go down into the dust:
Lying and suspicion and conspiracy and lust.
And I cannot hate the Kaiser (I hope you understand.)
Yet I chase the thing he stands for with a brickbat in my hand.

poem by Vachel Lindsay
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You Alleged

You alleged, my poems aren't
my wings' pure off-springs.
My imagination is numb,
my thought dull thing brings.
I can't play in bleeding
soul, I then torn my sampler.
as your piercing words arrowed.
But, I'm not a deceiver.
You Othello! Don't press
this Desdimona's throat,
listening to Iago's words.
Try to read what she wrote,
on the handkerchief of life.
She loved you as a poet
loves the objects of nature,
she can't you ever hate.

poem by Nilakshi Das
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O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind farewell content Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue O, farewell Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell Othello's occupation's gone

quote by William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare

Read ‘As you like it’ to enjoy courtships.
‘Romeo and Juliet’ to feel the fire of
love,
‘Mac Beth’ to learn the wreck of volatile
ambition,
‘Othello’ to know the pain of suspicion,
‘Julius Caesar’ to sense the folly of faith,
‘Antony and Cleopatra’ to pulse the
might of lust,
‘Hamlet’ for the havoc of infidelity
And when you complete the Shakes
pears
You will have known that you’d been
Like those characters in different times..
25.04.2003

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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An Address to Shakespeare

Immortal! William Shakespeare, there's none can you excel,
You have drawn out your characters remarkably well,
Which is delightful for to see enacted upon the stage
For instance, the love-sick Romeo, or Othello, in a rage;
His writings are a treasure, which the world cannot repay,
He was the greatest poet of the past or of the present day
Also the greatest dramatist, and is worthy of the name,
I'm afraid the world shall never look upon his like again.
His tragedy of Hamlet is moral and sublime,
And for purity of langucge, nothing can be more fine
For instance, to hear the fair Ophelia making her moan,
At her father's grave, sad and alone....
In his beautiful play, "As You Like If," one passage is very fine,
Just for instance in fhe forest of Arden, the language is sublime,
Where Orlando speaks of his Rosilind, most lovely and divine,
And no other poet I am sure has written anything more fine;
His language is spoken in the Church and by the Advocate at the bar,
Here and there and everywhere throughout the world afar;
His writings abound with gospel truths, moral and sublime,
And I'm sure in my opinion they are surpassing fine;

[...] Read more

poem by William Topaz McGonagall
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It Only Takes One To Do An 'Iago

Undermining has always been a trait,
Of those envious of others' deeds.
Conflicts have initiated over images raised.
Only to be replaced,
By mediocre initiatives.
And one with a taste to victimize with venom

It only takes one to do an 'Iago'.
You know
Othello's foe?
That legendary Moor,
In the military service of Venice.
Married to Desdemona,
And
The subject and tragic figure of Shakespeare's play.

That's all it takes!
An Iago who fakes a loyalty.
But has traitor on the mind,
And equipped to do it with lips.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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