Chaos in Fourteen Lines, Annie Finch's essay on the Sonnet
Sonnet essay in CPR (sneak preview of A Poet's Craft/A Poet's Ear) CPR - Chaos in Fourteen Lines by Annie Finch www.cprw
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Thanks for that Mike. I happen to believe (as I think A. E. Housman did) that there is some as-yet undiscovered significance to the sonnet form that informs its durability. Perhaps an archetypal or...
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I dunno. I don't know if I understand the belatedness issue, because if it's a question of working in forms that are necessarily 'of the past,' past their expiration date, that's complete nonsense....
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Here's Q2 from Shakespeare sonnet CX. Haven't the truth/youth, above/love rhymes lost their currency? Who would dare use them today? Cliche is time-bound. Yesterday's inventiveness becomes today's...
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Rhyme doesn't lose its currency. I don't much like "worse essays proved thee my best of love," but that's not to say that the rhyme of "love" is alone to blame. Cliche' is not time bound. It is what...
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"I may be wrong, but really, what advantage is there in counting up our limitations? Poetry will out." Exactly! It's idiotic to dismiss the sonnet form on the grounds that it can't be executed well....
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As a frequent sonnet writer, I'd never argue for dismissing the sonnet form. But I believe inventiveness becomes a successively tougher gig. The same can be said for all art forms I suppose. It's not...
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As for myself, I believe it was harder to invent the form than to explore its possibilities. It wasn't harder for Dante to do it after Guido Cavalcanti; it was more exciting to him, as it was to...
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what do we gain by believing that the task is harder than it was before? an excuse
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"What do we gain by believing that the task is harder than it was before?" I'm not sure Mike why a gain or loss must be contemplated when offering an observation. By all means, let's all keep writing....
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A week down the line, I still think about this. Unanswered questions to which I am lucky enough to have answers. A gain or loss must be contemplated because we are not making observations, we are...
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Unless you dream them back to life. Dreaming language back to life is as good a definition of the business of poets as I've heard in a while. Alan
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Or cat-napping anyway. It worked for the surrealists. Nemo
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