I take your point, Kasper, but as I say elsewhere, there may be a play
of terminology at work here, as well as simply the interesting
compulsion to say whatever you're going to say within 14 lines
(similarly the english ghazal tempts some because it is only 10 lines,
5 couplets, long). So some of us still like to play off the term
'sonnet' because it carries a historical weight of meaning that plays
into what we write now...
Doug
On 18-Sep-06, at 4:59 PM, Kasper 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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