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On the Premature notice of the Sonnet's Death

No, sonnets are not dead, as you will findby one brief look at Sonnet Centrals board.A host of sonneteers find great rewardin sharing there the fruits of agile minds.Debate and discourse flow in...

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Hello Mel 2.Spectacular mixed metaphor in S1: I love it!Regards

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"Don't worry, your sonnets will be absorbed into The Block, like autumn leaves..." - gardawgI've seen the place where sonnets go to die.It's there behind the looming banks of Avon,just past...

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Melody -- wonderful start to a great exchange! Jason, I look at this as Revenge of the Reptiles. Form dominated the earth for millions of years, but Free Verse mammals took over and still reign...

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Jason,Every time I reread your sonnet, I end up with aching sides again. What a masterful example of the lighter sonnet art! Is this the first occurence of parthenogenesis in iambic...

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"The place where sonnets go to die?" But howcan this be possible? Why, Bill the Bardhimself has promised us that, all unmarredby sluttish time, our sonnets still will wowin times to come, and shall we...

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Forgive me this presumption, but Ive causeto clarify an issue in this thread.No sonnet ever written is now dead--At least not in the modern sense. Lets pauseand think of die according to the lawsof...

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Another Thomas -- Malthus -- did the mathand found that overpopulation leadsto self destruction (much like Sylvia Plath)and Darwin said survival's for the breedsthat have some clear advantage on the...

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(with thanks to David Anthony for pointing out the hazards of compressing a complex of metaphors into the last three lines of one's octave)DARTAGNAN IN PICADILLYAll undercover sonneteers will findthat...

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Highgate CemeteryI know the place they go, it's Highgate Hill,where Whittington was asked to turn againby London's bells careening to the still,sad music of humanity. Thenas now, when wandering above...

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From the sublime to the ridiculous and back again, this thread is getting to be quite a collection! Kudos to all (so far). No time today to comment on all individually. but this is a thread to print...

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I think our metaphors have gotten tangledsomewhere along the line within this thread.Mel 2 is sure the form itself's not dead,while Seeker vows that fragments, like the mangledshreds of diced amoebas,...

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Yep, it's a jungle in here! Curse of the mixed metaphors.

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Tom--Apparently we've overposted a couple of times this morning.I missed your latest until I'd posted the first version of mine(fortunately, I had a couple of angles left). Then you postedat the same...

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Just a note. These last few days Ive spentin looking on with morbid fascinationas one live spark became a conflagration(intriguing as a change of government).My printer groans in mock astonishment.I...

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If the sonnet died I fear I'd follow.Perish the idea of formless day.Free verse is a pill I cannot swallow.No more than I can adlib through this play.From dawn to dusk I find no mooring cleatwhile...

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You find ten rhymes for tangle, then you dareto speak of peril on the net? No fearwas ever known by such a man. Yes, we'rethe jungle warriors, come back to swear:"God help us, it's a living hell out...

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My Christmas Card to Sonnet CentralFruitcakes and flakes unite! At Christmastime,spirits of generosity walk forthto join the juxtaposed, to blend harsh rhyme,to wrap our cyber-paper round the...

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What an incredibly talented group -- I salute you! I'm new to ezboard but not to the net, and I recognize a few of your names. Until reading this wild, wacky, and wonderfully entangled thread, I had...

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To rhyme2spare, I rush to be the firstto usher you into these rhyming ranks,and by all means, be sure to slake your thirstby sipping of the waters from the banksof these sonnetic shores. Your rhyming...

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Just signing off for the holiday.Merry Christmas to everyone at SC, and thanks for brightening my year.

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