Structure related to the argument...

This poem was cool. i really enjoyed reading it. Some things i didn't quite get, but others i believe i picked up on. So, to answer the question, i believe that the poem is strewn out in various stanzas, as it describes the way one's life does. This is a progression of life for the author and probably relating to anyone really. He goes from late nights and "one-night cheap hotels"- the essence of fiery love and excitement in our society. He then proceeds to describe a dog, and his own physical aging with white hair and trousers etc. He goes on to describe himself walking along the beach with mermaids singing- the depiction of a paradise, an almost blurred scene of a movie or a dream, that foretells our personal view of heaven, with an almost universal generality. The lines are divied in various stanzas that sometimes start a new description or thought, and sometimes don't. This whole poem is a random stream of conciousness of life and it's process. i believe the author may have made the intentional structure, to have no structure at all. This is life. all the words are just describing it's randomness yet with its presence of underlying beauty.

Line 43 of 4.5...

okay, i think the assignment was to analyze line 43 of 4.5. Hopefully.
"Lord we know what we are, but know not what we may be." (43) Spoken by Ohelia in the midst of her madnes. I guess i'm sorta thrown off key by her madness; i wasn't expecting her to start acting like this. I guess i also don't know really know why... could this be an act too?? hm... anyways, i believe what this line means is that humans are usually concious of who they are or what they are; the fact that they are human beings, however, we are not always prepared for what we might become. allow me to expand. throughout life, i believe everyone changes, the question is, how far? I believe instances like this could cause madness to some, especially when casualties such as these occur more regularly. Also, this could lead one to believe that personalities could somehow morph into animal like characteristics. One would then be able to obtain the madness of an animal or something with qualities unexplainable.
-to be honest, i'm not sure what i'm talking about right now. i do know, however, that this quote seems to foreshadow something that is to come...

Movie vs. Play...

Honestly, i don't know for sure. I can, however, tell my opinions on both. The play is what we originally started the whole story with, so i automatically assiciate Hamlet with the book that i hold on my hands. However, the movie does pop into my mind as we review parts from the story. The movie does assist greatly in my understanding of some of the lines spoken in the original text. Sometimes i picture things spoken differently than they are, but it helps with my understainding; usually. The director, i think, does a very good job at capturing the tine of the story with most lines. Others, however, i believe are meant to be worded differently, which may then not actually be the directors' fault, but may due to the freedom granted in the art of acting. Nonetheless, i do believe that in order to remember things better, even though out of order, the movie does a pretty good job at displaying that mood and setting of Hamlet. The one that that will always bug me about movie retakes though, is not sticking to the origianal order and form of the intended work. If i were a director, i don't care what would look best in my opinion. My goal is not to make something new with my creative ideas alone, but to base them off of someone else's. The one thing i like about books, however, is the freedom of creataivity that the reader has. Each person is able to visualize and create their own characters and places and things; that's the beauty of imagination.