Oct 16, 2016

I've been reading Shakespeare recently, and the guy was really a brilliant wordsmith. So I've been reading his Wiki page, and under "Style" noticed some resemblance between Shakespeare and Eminem. Check this out.

"Once Shakespeare mastered traditional blank verse, he began to interrupt and vary its flow. This technique releases the new power and flexibility of the poetry in plays such as Julius Caesar and Hamlet."
Doesn't this sound like Eminem's stop-and-go flow? We've argued Eminem is bored of the traditional rhyming so he's pushing it further by rhyming where it's not supposed to, forcing the flow to adjust to weird rhyme schemes. "Interrupt and vary" = stop and go.

"After Hamlet, Shakespeare varied his poetic style further, particularly in the more emotional passages of the late tragedies. The literary critic A. C. Bradley described this style as "more concentrated, rapid, varied, and, in construction, less regular, not seldom twisted or elliptical" "
More concentrated, rapid, varied, less regular...isn't this Eminem's double time rhyme packing auctioneer rapping?

"In the last phase of his career, Shakespeare adopted many techniques to achieve these effects. These included run-on lines, irregular pauses and stops, and extreme variations in sentence structure and length"
Once again...

"In Macbeth, for example, the language darts from one unrelated metaphor or simile to another"
Recovery punchlines

Basically, Eminem is Shakespeare reincarnated.

 

Oct 16, 2016

2216, Harvard literature college: Eminem 101

Final exam: Spit Speedom verse

 

Oct 17, 2016

Spatula the Goat

 

Oct 17, 2016

Marshall oh Marshall, wherefore art thou new album?