Ah, this long dormant thread is stirring again, though I see no one jumped at my invitation to turn other works of lit into d-d sequences.
Can't resist, though, posting this d-d version of Browning's "Johannes Agricola in Meditation":
Glorious misery!
Heavenly Patriarch,
grateful am I that with
Thee will I dwell.
May I, a meek little
supralapsarian,
show no compassion for
those doomed to hell.
And, though a bit longer, this summary of "Midsummer Night's Dream":
Now the occasion of
Theseus' wedding to
lovely Hippolyta
signals our theme:
how lovers' whimsical
irrationalities
joyously dance in a
summer night's dream.
Come to the forest where
four young Athenians
(Hermia, Helena,
and their two beaux)
try to discover a
non-acrimonious
way to untangle their
various woes.
Fairy king Oberon,
grudging Titania her
love of a foundling, is
jealous and sore,
so he sends Puck for an
aphrodisiacal
flower to charm her and
even the score.
He wants moreover to
help the young lovers, but
Puck messes up and the
wrong guy is juiced.
Pity poor Helena!
What must she think as she's
involuntarily
doubly traduced?
Meanwhile a motley of
well-meaning citizens,
gathered to practice a
tragical skit,
prove to be players most
unsatisfactory--
much too much bumbling and
too little wit.
Mischievous Puck plays a
trick of his own, so that
willful Titania, a-
sleep in the grass,
wakes to a wonderful
implausibility--
falling for Bottom, trans-
formed to an ass.
This being comedy,
all is resolved. Let the
nuptials proceed, and may
each happy pair
(luckier far than that
tatterdemalion
Pyramus) never know
Thisbe's despair.
Cheers,
Jan