I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
Twas pastime to be bound; Within the sonnet's scanty plot of ground; Pleased if some souls (for such there needs must be)Who have felt the weight of too much liberty, Should find brief solace there, as I have found.
Rafael made a century of sonnets.
Masefield's sonnets Ah yes. Very nice. Pure Shakespeare. Masefield's 'Reynard the Fox' Very nice, too. Pure Chaucer. Masefield's 'Everlasting Mercy' H'm. Yes. Pure Masefield.
Think you, if Laura had been Petrach's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life.
Should e'er unhappy love my bosom pain,
From cruel parents, or relentless fair;
O let me think it is not quite in vain
To sigh out sonnets to the midnight air!
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets.
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.
I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.
I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here.
I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
The actors memorize the sonnets and deliver them usually in an ostentatious manner. As big and proud as possible. There's lots of prancing around.
It is far easier to write ten passable effective sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.
Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recap
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