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Having written a sequence of 14 line poems in the voice of another poet in love I have to agree here. The tradition if utilized in various ways can be modernized, I feel. But I've also seen some examples of rather slavish copying that seem to sink back into a past quite clearly no longer alive. There's the danger. I liked the points Robin raised about sonnets & sonets.... Doug On 16-Oct-07, at 4:26 AM, Joanna Boulter wrote: > Roger, are you saying that to write in any "earlier" form, no matter > how adventurously we push its boundaries, is outworn tradition time? > Does this mean that we should only write in "modern" forms? And if so, > can you justify this? Come on, man, surely tradition's only a sin if > it's slavish, and this discussion would seem to indicate that this > particular one is certainly not that. Douglas Barbour 11655 - 72 Avenue NW Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 (780) 436 3320 http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 and this is 'life' and we owe at least this much contemplation to our western fact: to Rise, Decline, Fall, to futility and larks, to the bright crustaceans of the oversky. Phyllis Webb