![]() ![]() Writing these forms, and finding about them, has been fun. Over the past few weeks I’ve indulged in a number of short, humorous forms: the limerick, the double-dactyl, the grook. While I’ve never professed to know much about poetry, I realized how very little I actually knew. This question, which a student asked me last fall, is actually one of the reasons why I embarked on the Weekly Poem Project. Sonnets are so fundamental, so basic to literary knowledge, that they seem simply always to have existed- created, perhaps, on the fifth day, somewhere after musk oxen and before aardvarks. Why did God make sonnets? Well …. It was like being asked why the sky is blue, or why the moon is round. ![]() I just couldn’t believe that after 10+ years of teaching, I’d never been asked it before.Īnd I didn’t know the answer. ![]() Not because it was such a crazy question–no, it seemed like a perfectly good question. “Professor Cole, who invented the sonnet?” ![]()
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