u know i have just read " An Enigma",a poe sonnet in which he really paradoxically criticizes sonnets whether english or petrarchan and considered them superficial, nonsense and even trash!! although he ended up using the sonnet for the same traditional aim, that is , to immortalize a lady called sarah anna lewis whose full name is alluded to throught the lines of the sonnet.
according to reasonable thinking ...imagine a poet able to express what he feels or sees in such a condensed construction..such a capsule which is small but very effective..the sonnet is not a haphazard form..it has strict rules a poet should abide by..so to master it would be something notable..and by saying that it's not old-fashioned i mean contemporary poets still resort to it a lot..so even if historically the sonnet goes back to the 13th century but it still exists as an important genre of lyric poetry.
So you don't think the sonnet is an old-fashioned form? Do you think it is modern and hip? According to whom is a sonnet-writer considered a genius?
Nevertheless, a couple Poe sonnets include "To My Mother," "Sonnet - Silence," "To Zante," and "Sonnet - To Science." Those are off the top of my head. Anyone know of others?
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the sonnet is not an old-fashioned form..the poet who could master this lyric genre is considered genius coz to write a sonnet constitutes a challenge to the poet who has to express his idea or emotion in such a limited space..it's not an easy task of course and i wondered why poe didn't leave a reasonable no of sonnets as he cared about the length of poems and was in favor of short poems and the sonnet is thus a supposedly ideal short form, not long at all and appeals to the rhetoric style of poe who was famous for stressing the importance of rhythm and music in poetry. So again who knows how poe appreciated the sonnet genre? Thank you.
Why do you think? The man just didn't write a lot of sonnets. If I had to guess, it's probably because he didn't often imitate old-fashioned European forms. Frankly, the sonnet form is very limiting, and Poe was not the kind of writer who liked limits.
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hi everybody, please i urgently need to know what was edgar allan poe's opinion about the sonnet genre? he wrote few sonnets...why didn't he write many especially that he held the opinion that a good sonnet shouldn't be too long and since the sonnet is composed of only 14 lines so i had guessed he would have certainly admired it and used it so much but i found out he doesn't have a big collection in sonnets, why so? please answer me as soon as possible....thanks a lot
