Mary
Being the nit-picker that I am, I just want to say that there would appear
to be no such word as *sandunes*. Shouldn't this be *sand-dunes*?
Best
Roger.
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From: "LaPoetessa" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: petrarchan sonnet
Thank you Colin for your comments. You are not the first to say that about
the 'sandunes'. I think I was thinking of the sandunes at St.Annes on Sea
where I was born (not in the sandunes though). As I explained in an
earlier message, this sonnet was my first Petrarchan Sonnet and as such I
just pulled ideas out of thin air and tried to make them fit, as the poem
suggests. It was an experiment with the form nothing more nothing less.
And I am sure you could write one better, but thanks for the nice
compliment.
Mary
----- Original Message -----
From: Colin dewar
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Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 11:59 AM
Subject: petrarchan sonnet
LP,
A better sonnet than I could write, that's for sure. Not so keen on "lost
in sandune's dust". A sand dune makes me think of something sandy rather
than dusty and always moving and so unlikely to hide things for long.
Interesting theme, though, the position of lust rather than love in our
aesthetic lives.
BW
Colin
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