01-25-2015, 03:54 PM
Ellajam to the radio,
"Although this was accepted in a sonnet thread, bena has got me thinking about the volta, which in fact is missing, and this is no sonnet."
Helen Vendler in reference to the Volta in sonnets said, "the couplet——placed not as resolution (which is the function of Q3) but as coda..." --Helen Vendler "The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets"
As a writer of sonnets Shakespeare was a great playwright. However I think the quote is telling. The Volta can be a philosophical overview of the poem. Thus:
"Although our place does not dictate our worth,
we cannot earn the luck or curse of birth."
-should be counted as a worthy Volta in my mind.
Considering the excepted abandonment of IP in parts of the sonnets in the crown, it would be difficult to accept the partial crown as a series of sonnets, and yet such deficient poems were excepted in the crown from which this poem is from.
Another quote in support "the octave-sestet division is overshadowed by three distinct and equal blocks, the quatrains--and by the couplet that looks back upon the sonnet's action, often with acerbic, epigrammatic terseness or sweeping judgement." --Stephen Burt and David Mikics "Shakespeare's Sonnets"
I would say the couplet in the poem would qualify as "epigrammatic terseness."
I am of course assuming this is an Elizabethan sonnet and not a Petrarchan sonnet. The Volta in Petrarchan sonnets are of course more involved.
dale
"Although this was accepted in a sonnet thread, bena has got me thinking about the volta, which in fact is missing, and this is no sonnet."
Helen Vendler in reference to the Volta in sonnets said, "the couplet——placed not as resolution (which is the function of Q3) but as coda..." --Helen Vendler "The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets"
As a writer of sonnets Shakespeare was a great playwright. However I think the quote is telling. The Volta can be a philosophical overview of the poem. Thus:
"Although our place does not dictate our worth,
we cannot earn the luck or curse of birth."
-should be counted as a worthy Volta in my mind.
Considering the excepted abandonment of IP in parts of the sonnets in the crown, it would be difficult to accept the partial crown as a series of sonnets, and yet such deficient poems were excepted in the crown from which this poem is from.
Another quote in support "the octave-sestet division is overshadowed by three distinct and equal blocks, the quatrains--and by the couplet that looks back upon the sonnet's action, often with acerbic, epigrammatic terseness or sweeping judgement." --Stephen Burt and David Mikics "Shakespeare's Sonnets"
I would say the couplet in the poem would qualify as "epigrammatic terseness."
I am of course assuming this is an Elizabethan sonnet and not a Petrarchan sonnet. The Volta in Petrarchan sonnets are of course more involved.
dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.