Excuse me? If you want to go beyond merely aserting I think you'd
need to supply a bit of evidence.
Mark
At 01:53 PM 10/14/2007, you wrote:
>Before Shakespeare there were sonnets. These 'court' poems cast
>women's ownership - as slave justification. Worse than any modern
>day configuration of selling off a daughter to marry a son, they
>were 'shopping lists' on high: proposal, reason, acceptance (look at
>the sonnet's form).
>
>Brilliantly, Shakespeare utterly transformed the sonnet, whereby
>there might be love: proposal? reason? acceptance?
>
>Wilfred Owen brilliantly turned the sonnet inside out and, in my
>view, killed it.
>
>My problem with the sonnet today is that its form, this previously
>aristocratic structure, is now an accepted intellectual deceit.
>
>Did Brecht write sonnets? Did Andre Breton write sonnets?
>
>Why oh why the sonnet among you today?
>
>Rupert x
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