I need help on this: Introduction to Shakespeare assignment Here are the instructions:
Answer the following questions:
What is the value in studying Shakespeare 400 years after his writings? Name at least three (3) things high schoolers can learn from his famous works. If you do not think there is anything valuable, please be specific as to why.
List 5 important facts about his life.
What kind of present-day references, allusions, movies, songs (etc.) can be attributed to Shakespeare’s works.
Find at least three (3) Shakespeare sayings/quotes you are familiar with, and better yet, have used in your lifetime.
Have you read anything by Shakespeare or are you familiar with any of his stories and poems through any interpretations?

Read this adapted excerpt from a famous poem by john keats. this poem is about a beautiful vase with intricate shapes and patterns. you, silent form, do tease us out of thought as does etemity: cold pastorall when old age shall this generation waste, you shall remain in the middle of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom you say "beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know what is the poet saying when he writes that "old age shall this generation waste"? the poet is expressing his dread of growing older the poet is mourning the changes he sees in his "generation." the poet is saying that beauty is illusionary and short-lived. the poet is saying that people don't live long; life is brief