The House Of Experience Comments

Since I was a teenager, meeting Hamlet for the first time, a life-long friend, I have loved the lines you quote as an epigraph. Your poem is informed by these words, and also I feel the prose passage soon after in which Hamlet rejects augury and puts his faith in THE READINESS IS ALL. If I were still teaching HAMLET, always a wonderful experience, I would read your poem to show students how an alert, committed reader can build on Shakespeare's to nudge his/her life forward with this creative spirit, (My ex-wife and I had a similar experience with our first home. I'm glad you can still love what you loved despite this setback,)