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"Sonnet" by Billy Collins

Theme

Lines 1-4

  • Poetry in general, but specifically the style of sonnets
  • Why do all sonnets have to be the same?
  • makes fun of the opening of many sonnets
  • "to launch a little ship on love's storm-tossed seas"

"Sonnet"

Works Cited

Conflict

"How easily it goes unless you get Elizabethan and insist / the iambic bongos must be played and rhymes positioned at the ends of lines"

All we need is fourteen lines, well, thirteen now,

and after this one just a dozen

to launch a little ship on love's storm-tossed seas,

then only ten more left like rows of beans.

How easily it goes unless you get Elizabethan

and insist the iambic bongos must be played

and rhymes positioned at the ends of lines,

one for every station of the cross.

But hang on here while we make the turn

into the final six where all will be resolved,

where longing and heartache will find an end,

where Laura will tell Petrarch to put down his pen,

take off those crazy medieval tights,

blow out the lights, and at last come to bed.

Painting of the Pamir by Yasmina (2008). Digital image. Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation Inc., n.d. Web. 21 May 2015. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Carrie>.

Petrarch. Digital image. Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation Inc., n.d. Web. 21 May 2015. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch>.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Digital image. Flickr. Yahoo, 12 Apr. 2012. Web. 21 May 2015. <https://www.flickr.com/photos/poetrybooks/6926228826/in/photolist-56xN24-dj9bnc-6xDEc5-caLjNd-by3Jwo-LucEx-nyPb6n-nhjrgR-GP51q-8pgGCw-6xDGSA-roXhs7-9L7n-aN7yA-7TGueh-79ZDed-ayDy3-2Pq1F-oyux71-rxpPgA-4N63py-8zx7ut-a3zN96-sHdp42-sUwE2>.

Howard, David P. Rows of Bean Poles. Digital image. Geograph. N.p., 2011. Web. 21 May 2015. <http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2451787>.

Literrio, Antonio. Stipula Fountain Pen. Digital image. Wikimedia Commons. N.p., 26 May 2011. Web. 21 May 2015. <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stipula_fountain_pen.jpg>.

Free Wrinkled Lined Blank Notebook Paper High Resolution Creative Commons. Digital image. Flickr. Yahoo, 11 Oct. 2012. Web. 21 May 2015. <https://www.flickr.com/photos/pinksherbet/8077064004>.

Figurative Language

Lines 5-8

"then only ten more left like rows of beans."

Tone

  • Collins really begins to talk about his disagreement with sonnets in these lines
  • Disagrees with the Elizabethan way to write sonnets

"All we need is fourteen lines, well thirteen now, / and after this one just a dozen"

  • lively and witty

Lines 9-14

"where Laura will tell Petrarch to put down his pen"

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