(Sonnet XCVIII) ~ William Shakespeare , Shakespeare's Sonnets April. Of course it is a fake awakening because, as he says later on, 'trees gives no shelter'. Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing. I began reading it when I was about nine, simply because I was bored and lonely and had read everything else in the house. Which brings us to wine and poetry, because April is also National Poetry Month . - William Shakespeare, "April is the cruelest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain." Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing. Most people recognize the famous first line, “April is the cruelest month...” and apply it to tax season or … - Byron Caldwell Smith, "Sweet April-time—O cruel April-time! At home in Stratford, he would have been far from the distractions of the fastest-growing and already the largest metropolis in Europe. - Hal Borland, "April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go." And poet T.S. Even butch Henry V thinks with nostalgia of the “even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth / The freckled cowslip, burnet and green clover” (“Henry V,” Act V, Scene 2, lines 48-49). William Shakespeare’s exact birthdate is unknown, but we do have enough historical evidence on record to know that he was born in April. Apr 5, 2012 - "April is the cruelest month.." heavy frost in April 2008, Witchmountain At first I understood very little, though enough to ask my father in a spirit of pure mischief what a “whore” was. Eliot , The Waste Land It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. - William Cullen Bryant, "The Fountain". "April is the cruelest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain." The Burial of the Dead. Quotes About the Month of April From Great Writers. Even though spring officially started a few weeks ago, it hasn’t felt very spring-like for many people in the U.S. In the northern hemisphere, April is clasically associated with spring. Esther Lombardi, M.A., is a journalist who has covered books and literature for over twenty years. ~ Rebecca McNutt - Christopher Morley, "John Mistletoe". Today marks the start of National Poetry Month, four weeks dedicated to the celebration of poetry throughout the years. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "April", "The children with the streamlets sing, / When April stops at last her weeping; / And every happy growing thing / Laughs like a babe just roused from sleeping." When I got to the end of the last play, I simply started again. Will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Poor old Enoch Arden was unrecognizable by man or beast after ten. Why pay rent in London when you are paying to keep up a big house in Warwickshire? Winter kept us warm, covering. April is the cruellest month, breeding. I. Eliot famously called it the cruelest month. The one detailed account of his accommodation shows it to have been more like a student’s room in college than the apartment of a successful theatrical entrepreneur. This was forty days, nearly six weeks, when no play could be performed. So why is April the cruelest month in the Waste Land? The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. We have disconnected documentary evidence of his residence in Shoreditch, Bishopsgate, Southwark, and Cripplegate. - John Greenleaf Whittier, "The Singer", "April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers." Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers. He wrote his plays alone. ""The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year." "April... hath put a spirit of youth in everything." Falling in love with Spring feels great! April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. T he famous first line of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land was almost certainly not written in April but in January. Some poets and writers have described April rains as tears, symbolizing the passing of time and the changing of the seasons. I was appalled. Stress from preparing students for the AP and IB exams, grading piles of writing assessments for 5 levels of French, preparing final exams, and planning engaging lessons for students who have already mentally checked out for the year sets in and doesn’t decrease until the end of the school year. April is definitely the most challenging month of the school year for me. The exactness of this compressed account is wonderful. All rights reserved. - Harriet Prescott Spofford, "April", "Again the blackbirds sings; the streams / Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams, / And tremble in the April showers / The tassels of the maple flowers." - Mary Mapes Dodge, "Now the Noisy Winds Are Still", "Sweet April showers / Do spring May flowers." Aubrey is an unreliable witness, to be sure, but when what he says is less remarkable than what is commonly believed, and not in the least titillating, we might perhaps entertain it as a possibility, rather than insisting on an impossibility. / All the spring is in her train, / Led by shining ranks of rain; / Pit, pat, patter, clatter, / Sudden sun and clatter patter! ~ George Orwell, 1984 April hath put a spirit - Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Now the noisy winds are still; / April's coming up the hill! With this roundup of quotes about April, learn how writers from William Shakespeare to Mark Twain viewed this key month of the year. (“The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” Act I, Scene 3, lines 85-88). Lombardi, Esther. April is cruel? Lombardi, Esther. April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. Studio-Eleven: An open letter to May list: I think it was Shakespeare that said "April is the cruelest month". T. S. Eliot begins this master work of modern poetry with the lines “April is the cruelest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory … A little life with dried tubers. The Buddha calls such disappointment "suffering." "April was formerly the second month in the ancient Roman year, when March began the calendar. . Welcome April. https://www.thoughtco.com/writer-quotes-month-of-april-737869 (accessed April 19, 2021). Romney, Other Republicans Who Voted to Impeach Trump Have Spent More Money on Personal Security; White House funnels $1.7 billion to help track and fight coronavirus variants - Mark Twain, "The sun was warm but the wind was chill. It arrives when winter has just ended and spring is beginning, symbolizing a period of rebirth. "Every tear is answered by a blossom, / Every sigh with songs and laughter blent, / April-blooms upon the breezes toss them. Oxlips and violets are in bloom on the bank where Titania sleeps, along with woodbine, musk roses, and eglantine (Act II, Scene 1, lines 256-57). All rights reserved. - T.S. “What are you reading?” he shouted. ~ T.S. Daffodils do come before the swallows arrive, and take their chances with the often-cruel winds of March. T. S. Eliot famously wrote that “April is the cruelest month”—and William Shakespeare may be apt to agree with him, as he died on April 23, 1616 in Stratford-upon-Avon shortly after his fifty-second birthday. To revisit this article, select My Account, then, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. - T.S. Get book recommendations, fiction, poetry, and dispatches from the world of literature in your in-box. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. This is classic Eliot topsy-turviness. Eliot, "The Waste Land", "April is a promise that May is bound to keep." - Robert Frost, "Two Tramps in Mud Time". ThoughtCo uses cookies to provide you with a great user experience and for our. "Quotes About the Month of April From Great Writers." He was not a collaborator. ~ Naguib Mahfouz , Adrift on the Nile Her laughter sounded like April showers, like whispered secrets, like glass wind-chimes. / When the sun is out and the wind is still, / You're one month on in the middle of May." Eliot, "The Waste Land" … To find space outside it, he needed to leave London. Many poets and writers have focused on the natural beauty present in April—birds singing, rainbows, and the first flowers of spring. This essay, originally titled “Spring Imagery in Warwickshire,” is excerpted from “Living With Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors.” Copyright © 2013 by Germaine Greer. Eliot), April also stirs up memories and prompts reminiscences of the past. Puck would find it hard to “hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear” (Act II, Scene 1, line 15) in any other season. Every year the theatres were required to close for the entire penitential season of Lent. Germaine Greer is an Australian author, academic, and social activist. “April is the cruelest month” in T.S. Arviragus thinks he will deck Imogen’s grave as long as summer lasts, but his mind is turning on the flowers of the spring: …thou shalt not lackThe flower that’s like thy face, pale primrose, norThe azured harebell, like thy veins: no, norThe leaf of eglantine…(Act IV, Scene 2, lines 277-80). - Alexander Smith, "A Life Drama". The best minds of our generation are not starving, hysterical, naked — most of them are well-fed, calm, and stylishly dressed, thank you. -Ed. Living With Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors. William Shakespeare, 1564-1616. “April, April, laugh thy girlish laughter, and the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears, April.” – Angus … Dull roots with spring rain. However, for some poets (such as T.S. "- Susan Coolidge (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey), "April", "For April sobs while these are so glad / April weeps while these are so gay,— / Weeps like a tired child who had, / Playing with flowers, lost its way. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. By the time we were doing “Scenes from Shakespeare” at school, I knew whole plays almost by heart, which endeared me to neither my fellow students nor my teachers. For him to do so as vividly as Shakespeare does, however, suggests that for him rural Warwickshire was not a place of irksome exile in the custody of an aging and unloved wife, but a place his soul longed after, and where it eventually found peace. Answered 2 years ago. Part of what they believed was that Shakespeare abandoned his wife and children in 1585, or thereabouts, and then moved back into the marital home after twenty-six years or so of bachelor living in London. The writing of plays in the fifteen-nineties and the early seventeenth century was like the writing of scripts for TV soap operas and situation comedies today, though very much worse paid. / Year after year returning, with a brow / Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, / And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys / Of vanished springs, like flowers." "- Helen Hunt Jackson, "Verses—April", "Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn / Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May / New blooming blossoms 'neath the sun are born, / And all poor April's charms are swept away." Earth in forgetful snow, feeding. In a letter on January 23, 1921, Eliot refers to the nascent poem as “the first writing of any kind I have done for six months.” He would have had peace and quiet, as well as three good meals a day and his washing done. Being a nominally Catholic household, we didn’t have a Bible, but we did have a Shakespeare. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Dull roots with spring rain. Earth in forgetful snow, feeding. Eliot wrote that “April is the cruelest month,” but for me April will always be the best month of the year. . © 2021 Condé Nast. If I was curious about something, about how Shakespeare felt about war, say, I simply read the plays again. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. / The tulip tree, high up, / Opened, in airs of June, her multitude / Of golden chalices to humming birds / And silken-wing'd insects of the sky." The phrase “April is” immediately brings to mind (my mind, anyway, and also Google’s) the first line of The Waste Land. It never occurred to me to read about Shakespeare. Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee. Of course, in its entirety, it’s a hauntingly plaintive line: “April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.” The journey from London to Stratford took three days, so quick visits were out of the question, but a six-week break made worthwhile the six-day journey there and back. Most of them were special offers from the newspaper publishers who employed my father: “Fifty Famous Australians,” “The Complete Speeches of Sir Keith Murdoch,” “The Wit and Wisdom of Sir Robert Menzies,” that sort of thing. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/writer-quotes-month-of-april-737869. Ad Choices. Reading “The Wasteland” was more an exercise in reading footnotes, utilizing a German dictionary, and seeing how much of Dante and Shakespeare we could recall. - Mrs. Craik (Dinah Maria Mulock), "April", "The April winds are magical, / And thrill our tuneful frames; / The garden-walks are passional / To bachelors and dames." "Our spring has come at last with the soft laughter of April suns and shadow of April showers." / You know how it is with an April day. No other month is mentioned half as often in his works as showery, windy, sometimes unforgettably exquisite April. Lombardi, Esther. T.S. “Shakespeare,” said I demurely. ThoughtCo. A little life with dried tubers. "Quotes About the Month of April From Great Writers." Lent can begin as early as February 10th and end as late as April 25th; for the most part, it coincides with early spring. Sign up for the Books & Fiction newsletter. However, though the Bard himself passed away, his work and his words have proven immortal. We know that Shakespeare had no permanent lodging in London, but moved from one rented address to another. Nothing about this evidence is conclusive. / April knows her own, and is content. (2020, August 28). More ink has been expended on laborious proofs that he collaborated on bits of “The Two Noble Kinsmen,” and of “Henry VIII,” and that somebody else wrote some of “Pericles, Prince of Tyre” than has ever been devoted to explaining the singularity of his sole authorship of all thirty-six plays in the First Folio. Only an academic could believe that Shakespeare slid seamlessly back into a household he had pretended he didn’t have for more than a quarter of a century. https://www.newyorker.com/.../did-shakespeare-love-the-cruellest-month In “Cymbeline,” the wicked Iachimo can describe the mole on Imogen’s breast as “cinque-spotted: like the crimson drops / I’th’bottom of a cowslip” (Act II, Scene 2, lines 40-41). Usually there are posts begging peeks at next month's list by now. Eliot’s 1921 poem ‘The Waste Land’ because, as spring brought signs of new life and renewal, Europe was a dying mess. A poet may recollect the early spring of his native countryside when he is far away. A PRIL is the cruellest month, breeding. Shakespeare was not part of that system, but outside it. It was a fat, red, cloth-covered, cheapo Victorian edition, printed in double columns and minute characters, enlivened by the occasional steel engraving. This April may not be a typical one, but that doesn ' t mean you can ' t still celebrate the arrival of the warmth, growth and life of the season. Memory and desire, stirring. "A gush of bird-song, a patter of dew, A cloud, and a rainbow's warning, Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue—An April day in the morning." “The Winter’s Tale” is set in late summer, but when Perdita, decked like Flora peering “in April’s front,” laments that she has no flowers for her boy lover, she lists flowers of early spring: Daffodils,That come before the swallow dares, and takeThe winds of March with beauty: violets, dim,But sweeter than the lids of Juno’s eyesOr Cytherea’s breath: pale primrosesThat die unmarried, ere they can beholdBright Phoebus in his strength—a maladyMost incident to maids: bold oxlips andThe crown imperial: lilies of all kinds,The flower-de-luce being one. Shakespeare’s favorite month would seem to be April, when “wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear” (“A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Act 1, Scene 1, line 188). THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD. - Thomas Tusser, "When April winds / Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush / Of scarlet flowers. For many poets and writers, April symbolizes renewal and rebirth. The most common theory is that Aprilis is derived from the Latin verb Aperire, “to open”, as the opening, or blossoming, of trees and flowers. Because, in the non-Wasteland, it is a time of fecundity and renewal. The name “flower-de-luce” was used for all kinds of irises, including the native Iris pseudacorus, another flower of early spring. In observance of National Poetry Month, every Friday of April Micah Mattix will be examining one great line of verse. It takes no great leap of imagination to see Shakespeare in Warwickshire in April, because there is so much of Warwickshire in April in Shakespeare. I went on reading the family Shakespeare for years, until the cadence of Shakespeare’s lines had worn its way into my synapses and I spoke in iambic pentameter. There is yet another obvious fact about Shakespeare that Shakespeare scholars refuse to accept. / All things ready with a will, / April's coming up the hill!" The Australian household I grew up in had very few books. The freckles on a cowslip are not so conspicuous that they can be seen by a casual passerby, but Shakespeare and his characters know them well. The “cruelest month'” Calling April the “cruelest month” has become a sound byte that creeps into nearly every National Poetry Month press release and blog post. - Lucy Larcom, "The Sister Months", "April 1. - John Clare, "The Last of April", "Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May." O, how this spring of love resemblethThe uncertain glory of an April day,Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,And by and by a cloud takes all away. Violets, primroses, oxlips, and fritillaries are all flowers of early spring. It was published in book form in December 1922. Usually there are over 1000 photos by the 15th or so. 70 degree day, flowers blooming, birds singing--what's not to love? (Act II, Scene 1, lines 10-13). And when he needed to stretch his legs he could regale his imagination with the countryside, with Ceres’s, …rich leasOf wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats and peas;Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,And flat meads thatched with stover, them to keep:Thy banks with pionèd and twillèd brims,Which spongy April at thy hest betrimsTo make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broomgroves,Whose shadow the dismissèd bachelor loves,Being lass-lorn: thy poll-clipped vineyard…(“The Tempest,” Act IV, Scene 1, lines 66-74). John Aubrey, who began compiling material for his “Brief Lives” in the sixteen-sixties and continued doing so throughout his life, is one of the earliest observers to write about Shakespeare. Once again, the play seems set in early spring, as the wicked Queen orders “the violets, cowslips and the primroses” she has gathered to make her potions to be carried to her closet (Act I, Scene 5, line 92). Odysseus was away from home for twenty years, and when he got back only his dog could recognize him. It certainly was. April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. The arrival of April means that winter is behind us and spring has officially sprung.. The time came, however, when I had no choice but to read about Shakespeare because I had to draw up reading lists for my students. ThoughtCo, Aug. 28, 2020, thoughtco.com/writer-quotes-month-of-april-737869. Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month", "I will show you fear in a handful of dust", and the mantra in the Sanskrit language "Shant… “He was wont to go to his native country once a year,” Aubrey reports. (Act IV, Scene 4, lines 136-45). "April is the cruelest month," said Shakespeare. April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Month of dust and lies. Winter kept us warm, covering. April is not the cruelest month, March is. Not this month. April is the cruelest month, and I am currently treading water in a sea of ungraded essays. In “The Tempest,” Ariel’s favorite resting place is a cowslip’s bell (Act V, Scene 1, line 94). Memory and desire, stirring. Get a Taste for Similes With These 100 Sweet Comparisons, 35 Wedding Anniversary Wishes to Bless Married Couples, The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd, 9 Memorial Day Tributes Taken From Poems and Speeches, 128 Unforgettable Quotes From Shakespeare's Macbeth, M.A., English Literature, California State University - Sacramento, B.A., English, California State University - Sacramento. April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Again, though the play is called “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” the action seems to take place in early spring. April is a month of transition. She is Professor Emerita of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Warwick. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Year after year, i forget how fickle April is. Was Shakespeare usually in Warwickshire in the early spring? (This may have something to do with the fact that April happens to be my birth month.) 5. For many writers, April symbolizes youth, newness, and promise. Appalled by the sheer perversity of what my distinguished colleagues chose to believe about Shakespeare. . He wanted to point out the fact that in the waste land, where the ground is dead and unliveable, April represents the cruelest month because spring forces the dead land to 'breed lilacs'. The “real” origin of its name has been lost. 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