02-09-2012, 04:05 PM
Whaddaya mean? The court of the Norman French crapped all over those. Why do you think it is so difficult to write a sonnet without sounding like you stepped off into Yoda-speech for a line or two? Of course I don't doubt you have read some godawful sonnets, but then again how many people is one likely to run across that even knows what a sonnet is supposed to look like? These days if the line has 10 syllables to it, that's good enough. Matters not that there are only three stresses in the whole bloody line because "It's got ten syllables!". Or so I have been condescendingly told by these pseudo-poets who think that is what iambic pentameter is. Heaven forbid should they ever try to write in iambs, it might stop your heart! To tell the truth, I suspect the majority are of French descent. I mean what do you expect from a people whose language allows a five syllable word to be pronounced "Blauh!".
Besides, I don't need to have seen it rain, to deduce that it did, when I step into a puddle, and there are an awful lot of French puddles in English, language as well as poetry.
Dale
Besides, I don't need to have seen it rain, to deduce that it did, when I step into a puddle, and there are an awful lot of French puddles in English, language as well as poetry.
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.