Poetry / The English Teacher

When ‘Honor’ Is Due

Delicious irony here: the man who penned “What’s in a name? that which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet;” (Romeo & Juliet 2:2) bears a name that, like Romeo’s Montague to Juliet’s Capulet, is anathema to many who hear it. Shakespeare. See? It’s Shakespeare Week, my friends. You can’t think I, … Continue reading