Friday, March 5, 2010
Sonnet
The word sonnet comes from the Italian sonetto for "little song" or "little sound". So, a sonnet is something Shakespeare wrote a lot; he wrote about 154 of them. One can even be a "sonneteer" according to Wikipedia. English sonnets are fourteen lines, and are written in iambic pentameter. That means an unemphasized syllable is followed by an emphasized syllable, and this pattern repeats 5 times. Sonnets usually are arguing something, like how more beautiful your girlfriend/boyfriend is than anyone else. Our assignment is to actually write a sonnet, which is cool since it seems like one of those things you would never do unless it was an assignment. I suppose I can think of a couple "sonnet-worthy" people, to use Ashley's Seinfeld-esque word.
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The problem may be that there are only a few sonnet worthy people, but i can think of several whose selves can only be compared to the gods. Perhaps anymore the new way of thinking is "be a flatterer but don't work to hard". While i like the idea of forming a true sonnet (something im likely to do immediately) very few people will actually appreciate the time and effort, so why bother?
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