Shakespeare poetry is overrated it is clever but emotionless

con says "I strongly disagree that Shakespeare does not string words together. All his verse is written in iambic pentameter and sometimes it rhymes- I will provide an excerpt from one of his works to prove this. Taken from: http://www.shakespeare-monologues.org...... I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride, Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide. Do not extort thy reasons from this clause, For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause, But rather reason thus with reason fetter, Love sought is good, but given unsought better You can hear happiness, love and humbleness in this excerpt thanks to Shakespeare's choice of language and the fact that it is even written in couplets shows how fantastic Shakespeare was. It is impossible not to find emotion in this piece." con says "All his verse is written in iambic pentameter and sometimes it rhymes" the iambic beat on its own conveys neither happiness love or despair these emotions are only indicated by the words which make up the iambic beat- and words alone do not make a poem emotional if words did then any one could say to you "I love you" now you would not believe a person was showing emotion just by saying "I love you" these lines "I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride, Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide." these lines are emotionless just saying " i love thee" does not covey any emotion just as saying "my passion hide" does not covey any passion just by using words like "love" "passion" does not make the poem passionate or emotional that poem you gave is clearly unemotional though it talks of love it is clearly not passionate though it talks of passion you seem to think that it is by using emotional words a poem becomes emotional-you are wrong and these poems of Shakespeare show this clearly as I said Shakespeare's poems are clever but unemotional they are made up of emotional words strung together in a monotonous iambic beat which conveys no emotion again you can see the difference what real emotion is with this poem extract from Kissing http://www.scribd.com... "Oh my love kiss me tight clasp thy lips in passions bite Lips meet lips in blissful kiss Lips to lips burst into flame Exquisite incarnate bliss Heated flesh infinite joy Rapture seethes throughout the brain Within my veins loves fires flare which naught canst destroy Thy serpentine hair encircles my limbs Entwines my arms neck and shins Thy blossoms treasure lies encircled by my kiss A swelling tide deep within the floral abyss Thy perfumed sighs enthralls my senses bliss Languid luxurious succulent bloom the rhythmic lyrical lines sing out music of love emotion the varying line lengths capture the lovers varying emotional state all Shakespeare's poem do is again is string emotional words together in a monotonous iambic beat which conveys no emotion I will prove it more clearly take this line ""Oh my love kiss me tight clasp thy lips in passions bite"- this line conveys deep emotion through it rhythm now if I omit the word love you will still get an emotional feeling Oh my ... kiss me tight clasp thy lips in passions light now do the same for Shakespeare's line "I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride"-you are saying this conveys the emotion love now if I omit the word love you will get have no idea of what emotion he is talking about ""I ... thee so, that, maugre all thy pride" you can see clearly in the case of Dean the emotion is dependent on the rhythm of the line not any particular word but for Shakespeare the emotion is solely based on one word not the iambic beat- and the iambic beat is like a dead fish again the iambic beat on its own conveys neither happiness love or despair these emotions are only indicated by the words which make up the iambic beat