I am tempted to examine sonnets by poets other than Shakespeare or Spenser, the first masters of their respective forms, but I think it’s best (in this post at least) to take a look at how they did it, since they set the standard. It ‘s not just a matter of getting the rhymes right, or the turn (the volta) after the second quatrain, or the meter, but of unifying the imagery, meter, rhyme and figurative language of the poem into an organic whole. Many, many poets have written Shakespearean Sonnets, but few poets (in my opinion) have ever fully fused their voice with the intellectual and poetic demands of the form. It’s the fugue, the half-pipe of poetic forms. The Shakespearean Sonnet weeds the men from the boys, the women from the girls.
The Shakespearean Sonnet is easily the most intellectual & dramatic of poetic forms and, when written well, is a showpiece not only of poetic prowess but intellectual prowess. And of all the sonnet forms, Shakespearean is my favorite – also known as the English Sonnet because this particular form of the sonnet was developed in England. Sonnets are one of my favorite verse forms after blank verse. The word Sonnet originally meant Little Song. The Shakespearean Sonnet: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129 It’s interesting to me to see where readers are coming from and why they are reading these posts. If you’re a student, just leave a comment with the name of your high school or college. April 23 2009: One Last Request! I love comments.
Pass it around if you have friends or relatives interested in this kind of poetry. Check out Spider, Spider or, if you want modern Iambic Pentameter, try My Bridge is like a Rainbow or Come Out! Take a copy to class if you need an example of Modern Iambic Pentameter. One of the reasons I write these posts is so that a few readers, interested in meter and rhyme, might want to try out poetry. After you’ve read up on Sonnets, take a look at some of my poetry.Updated and expanded Ma– Miltonic Sonnet, Nonce Sonnet, Links to Various Sonnet Sequences and additional Sonnets.Ma– John Donne & his Sonnet Death be not proud….Ma– Sir Phillip Sidney: His Meter and his Sonnets.– New Post : Bright Star by John Keats, His Sonnet.– New Post : John Donne & Batter my Heart, His Sonnet.
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