:08:03
"Death," capital D, comma...
:08:05
"thou shalt die!", exclamation mark.
:08:10
If you go in for this sort of thing
I suggest you take up Shakespeare.
:08:14
Gardner's edition of the Holy Sonnets...
:08:16
returns to the Westmoreland
manuscript source of 1610.
:08:20
Not for sentimental reasons,
I assure you...
:08:22
but because Helen Gardner is a scholar.
:08:26
It reads:
:08:29
"And death shall be no more," comma...
:08:33
"Death thou shalt die."
:08:36
Nothing but a breath, a comma...
:08:38
separates life from life everlasting.
:08:42
Very simple, really.
:08:43
With the original punctuation restored,
death is no longer something...
:08:47
to act out on a stage
with exclamation marks.
:08:51
It is a comma. A pause.
:08:55
In this way, the uncompromising way...
:08:58
one learns something
from the poem, wouldn't you say?
:09:01
Life, death, soul, God...
:09:05
past, present.
:09:07
Not insuperable barriers.
:09:10
Not semicolons.
:09:13
Just a comma.
:09:16
Life, death, I see.
:09:21
It's a metaphysical conceit, it's wit.
:09:24
- I'll go back to the library...
- It is not wit, Miss Bearing, it is truth.
:09:28
The paper's not the point.
:09:30
Isn't it?
:09:32
Vivian, you're a bright young woman.
:09:35
Use your intelligence.
:09:38
Don't go back to the library, go out.
:09:41
Enjoy yourself with friends.
:09:50
I went outside.
:09:54
It was a warm day.
:09:57
There were students on the lawn
talking about nothing, laughing.
:09:59
There were students on the lawn
talking about nothing, laughing.