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Snakespeare

Recently we have completed a topic focusing on William Shakespeares works and the contemporary time around him. Here we focused on what made shakespeare so special at his time and why he stood out from his peers. We learned that it was his incredible ability to compose and structure his stories and his lyrical genius of his poetry that left its imprint history. But... I found that Shakespeare was quite hard to assimilate. I do not doubt the genius of shakespeare but i felt as if there was quite the language barriere between the english and this "ancient" english that shakespeare was accustomed to. This barrier made it hard to understand what Shakespeare is trying to convey in his works. He also uses a lot of metafores and and smilies which does not make it any easier. I think it can be summed up as english on hard mode. But when you finally decipher what it is that he is trying to convey you feel some sort of that you have made some sort of accomplishment. During this t...