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Revision as of 12:27, 9 September 2023

Scarlet-and-a-half.
What a piece of work are birds. (King bird of paradise photo by Dustin Chen.)

"What a piece of work are birds!" is a phrase from within a monologue by an anonymous contemporary of William Shakespeare.

The speech

What a piece of work are birds! How noble in saturation, how infinite in hue! In spectral absorption and reflection how express and admirable ... the beauty of the air ... the paragon of visual stimuli!

History

An early version was drafted by William Shakespeare in Hamlet:

What piece of work is a man, how noble in reason,
how infinite in faculties, in form and moving,
how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension,
how like a god!

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links

  • What a piece of work is man @ Wikipedia - a phrase within a monologue by Prince Hamlet in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Hamlet is reflecting, at first admiringly, and then despairingly, on the human condition.

Social media

  • Post @ Twitter (9 September 2023) - Scarlet and a half
  • Post @ Twitter (5 March 2021)) - King bird of paradise
  • Post @ Twitter