I find this all very nineteenth century.
Sonnets, as has been proved on this list many a time, can be written in
modern language and style very effectively.
Why bother to rehash the Wordsworth/Coleridge era? Let's do some twentyfirst
century stuff. While I enjoy the nineteenth century poets, I think poems
posted here for criticism should not be so archaic.
I'd better stop now as my prejudices are showing.
Roger.
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From: "LaPoetessa" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 11:15 PM
Subject: Songs of Love - Petrarchan Sonnet
> Hello, I'm new to the list so thought I would jump right in and post a
> sonnet. I came across this list quite by chance this evening.
>
> I have been a member of JISC for a number of years but mainly through my
> work at a University in the Northwest. I do believe it used to be known
as
> MailBase but I may be wrong?
>
> Well that's enough of my wild ramblings...on to the sonnet...
>
> Songs of Love - Petrarchan Sonnet
>
> Pray tell - if songs of love in rhyme can please,
> and should we all be lost in sandune's dust
> like thoughts in time, who then will write of lust?
> In making haste, words fail and yet words tease.
>
> What fools are we, to bend the form for ease
> of fit? In tempered pattern's cut and thrust,
> like pitchers placed where swords and daggers rust,
> in life it can be so, for words can freeze.
>
> In songs of love we write in rhyme to sway
> the heart. If sung in time, for words are songs
> of love as Muses too have loves to hold.
>
> We think it game to scoff at other's ways
> and yet in time they will forgive our wrongs,
> as Zephyrs blow and speak in words untold.
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