Sonnets

Moreover, he follows it up with the defiant assertion that his reading of the sonnets is a "primary reading" which "isn't necessarily required to articulate its findings". ❋ Robert McCrum (2010)

Perhaps as inversions abound generally in sonnets, it may be the principal cause of my disrelish for them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He had the "Love-sonnets from the Portuguese" in mind as he wrote, and he wrote under the best conditions for great work, at a climacteric of living, in the throes of his own sweet love-madness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My beloved husband goes through radiation and a book of sonnets is my passionate response. ❋ Jane Yolen (2010)

Robinsons "little wreath" of sonnets is patterned on the legitimate sonnet, a form that she believes only Milton of all the British poets has used with any success. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I'm not including my old schoolgirl sonnets from the seventies -- Satin-slippered April, you glide through time/And lubricate spring days, de dum, de dum -- and my dozen or so fawning book reviews from the early eighties. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Dryden remarks that the elegance he speaks of is common in Italian sonnets, which are usually written on the turn of the first thought; and certainly this speech of Eve might be truly compared, in all but the metrical structure, to an interspersed sonnet. ❋ Walter Alexander Raleigh (1891)

Leyden, and wrote among other poems, partly in Latin, sonnets and four Monarchicke Tragedies, Darius, ❋ Unknown (1853)

But those who are ignorant would admire her in this dress, and there are many villages in which she would be taken for the queen; hence we call sonnets made after this model "Village Queens." ❋ Blaise Pascal (1642)

(And unless you are Romeo or Juliet, you probably don’t speak in sonnets anyway. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I’m willing to believe that some of Catullus can work in sonnets, and I know that Catullus read Sappho, and I know that we receive Sappho in fragments, or as somehow essentially fragmentary, which isn’t how she seemed to her first audiences (either to her girls’ school, if she really did run a girls’ school of sorts, or to the first people who read her poems as transcribed). ❋ Unknown (2007)

But those who are ignorant would admire her in this dress, and there are many villages in which she would be taken for the queen; hence we call sonnets made after this model "Village ❋ 1623-1662 (1944)

This edition of the sonnets is a heroic enterprise. ❋ Barber, C.L. (1978)

By far the finest of all the sonnets are the best ones (a considerable part) of Shakspere's one hundred and fifty-four, which were not published until 1609 but may have been mostly written before 1600. ❋ Robert Huntington Fletcher (N/A)

But more famous still than the sonnets is the Epithalamion or wedding hymn which he wrote in his lady's honor, and which ever since has been looked on as the most glorious love-song in the ❋ Unknown (N/A)

He recalled the sonnets he had begun which were to make them both immortal. ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)

Brettville Jensen points out that if the sonnets are the expression of grief at the loss of his beloved, it is a queer contradiction that ❋ Martin Brown Ruud (1913)

The second peculiarity of Shakespeare which we must establish firmly in our minds before we attempt to construe the sonnets is his extraordinary snobbishness. ❋ Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 (1909)

The first thing that strikes one in the sonnets is the fact that, though a hundred and twenty-five of them are devoted to a young man, and Shakespeare's affection for him, and only twenty-six to the woman, every one of those to the woman is characterized by a terrible veracity of passion, whereas those addressed to the youth are rather conventional than convincing. ❋ Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 (1909)

I was trying to [write] a [sonnet] about sonnets today. Funny how [iambic pentameter] can't be used to write itself. ❋ Reyan_62 (2010)

The [sonnet] is a poetic form of fourteen lines -- everything else about it has been experimented with. 1. [Wilfred] [Owen's] Anthem for Doomed Youth: What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' [rapid rattle] Can [patter] out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells, Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,-- The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; And [bugles] calling for them from sad [shires]. What candles may be held to speed them all? Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes. The pallor of girls' brows shall be their [pall]; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. 2. W. B. Yeats' [Leda] and the Swan: A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her [nape] caught in his bill, He holds her helpless breast upon his breast. How can those terrified vague fingers push The feathered glory from her loosening thighs? And how can body, laid in that white rush, But feel the strange heart beating where it lies? A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower And [Agamemnon] dead. Being so caught up, So mastered by the brute blood of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? ❋ Dawn Easterbrook (2009)

❋ Frappy (2002)

Guy: Wow did you guys [see how] [pretty] she was today? [Other Guy]: Who Guy: Sonnet ❋ °°~Anonymous~°° (2017)

person 1: We have to [write] a SONNET for school. person 2: [I would] hate [writing] a SONNET ❋ Sir Climer The Great (2017)

[English Teacher]: [Today's] homework, write a [sonnet].' ❋ Wikipedia V2.0 (2019)

How's the sonneting [going]? I'm having [trouble] sonneting this [poem]. ❋ Piperita (2013)

Urban Dictionary is a [slang dictionary] with [your definitions]. [Define your world]. ❋ Shakespeare (2004)

[omg] [did you] see [ewa sonnet's] titss ❋ Mkvgti (2009)

Urban Dictionary is a [slang dictionary] with [your definitions]. [Define your world]. ❋ Shakespeare (2004)