I've stated the same from time to time, Kaspar, but I think there's
more to it. In a brief post I mentioned the prestige of the sonnet
and an ironic take on same. Which is a way of saying that calling it
a sonnet places it in dialogue with the sonnet tradition.
Mark
At 06:59 PM 9/18/2006, you wrote:
>"It seems that all they finally want to keep is the fourteen lines, &,
>perhaps, an inner turn..."
>
>Douglas, thanks for the info. I'd kind of gathered that postmodernism
>had sunk its rubbery teeth into sonnets like it has into most
>everything else, thanks for affirming my hunch.
>it seems a little stupid to me to call a poem in 14 lines & a volta a
>sonnet. maybe I'm close-minded about this particular topic somehow,
>but I see no point in it. just call it freeverse, if you have to give
>it a category, is what I say.
>
>KS
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