Contemporary Context Sonnet

Question 1

To start with it is? And it’s historic structure still

Answer 1

Short easily comprehended

Still opens the way for living debate and subtle argument

Question 2

One of the characteristics of recent poetic history on both sides of the Atlantic has been
The sonnet is able to
To suggest
While in single units it is capable of

Answer 2

Tension between lyric and narrative
Take its place in the debate
To suggest narrative progress through its sequence structure
It is capable of essential lyric qualities of being musical brief and memorable

Question 3

Contemporary poets for ? Have continued to
But few modern have been willing
Instead the sonnet has become

Answer 3

200 years
Be drawn to the sonnet
Commit themselves to major architectural sequences

Become a part of speech

Question 4

Some of the finest sonnets in the language have been written by

Answer 4

Poets who were only occasionally Sonneteers like yeats

Question 5

It might be argued that an ? Is what it has become a.k.a?

It’s imagistic compression of argument remains

It is one of the ? Of poetic form and it

Answer 5

Occasional form: a fossil of its former life

Major influence on the course of the stanza

Copingstones/ endures