3 sonnet notes

                                              
                                               
Several months ago Stan Apps posted two
of his sonnets on his blogspot blog.
In my comment about them one of my
remarks was: the essence of a sonnet is
the presentation of a difficulty
and a resolution.
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While reading his sonnets              
it also occurred to me
that the resolution did not need
to follow the difficulty              
but could (through the use of some device)         
be intertwined with the difficulty.         
However, I did not mention that thought.
                                               
On Monday February 04, 2008, Ron Silliman
shared and wrote about on his blog 
several sonnets from
Geoffrey Young's The Riot Act.
After the last of those:                  
"Why I Don't Write Novels":              
his first words were:                       
"There is a calculated austerity here--. . . ."
Indeed.  And my thought because of it is:
Although a sonnet may have deeper meanings,
its content can be quite plain
on its surface.         
                          
                           
                           
Rho00031