Shakespeare poetry vs. contemporary: brisbane audience assignment

She gathers up a new, dismembered toy. She shows no affection to her own flesh and blood ??? Delegates of the Brisbane Writer’s festival; What have we come to as a society, when a mother won’t even show affection to her own child – when her child is clearly asking for it? (13)The two conflicting ideologies of love come from the beliefs, values, knowledge, experience and assumptions of their times. In Shakespearian times there was a strict belief of God, possibly where Shakespeare’s notion of one love stems from.

However their knowledge and experience were limited compared to today. A definite assumption of the 16th century was to love, marry and have children, how now there is an assumption of playing the field before settling down. (14) So, delegates of the Brisbane Writer’s Festival, let’s return to the central question underlying my presentation today. Poetry in the modern era has developed into increasingly less structured forms. Perhaps we are all conditioned to believe that poetry from previous centuries is ‘ old fashioned’.