The Hamlet Project

I had to look this one up in the notes.
But I wasn’t convinced. I’m still wrestling with this instruction not to sleep.
Especially as it’s followed by an assurance that she won’t.
Yes, of course, the winds speed a boat along
Assisted by a convoy (which I think of as a gang of trucks –
Is it the same with boats? Do they call each other over the CB radio too?)
A gang of boats, traveling together
making trouble on the seas
or in the seas
or in this case
helping out.
I guess I can see that this is a way to say
“Write me at your first opportunity”
but it sure is a complicated and confusing way to say it.
What does it say about Laertes that he uses such odd phraseology?
It’s like part image, part obscurity, part awkward construction.
Some people are a little awkward.
I saw a groom at a wedding
Who had the air of a 13 year old growing into his body and just
Learning how to talk to girls.
Maybe Laertes is awkward with his little sister
The way that groom is with everyone.