Waialeale Crater
Questions, questions.
Mr. Cassity questions the poet’s choice of name places and makes some solid suggestions for L14 of this Petrarchan sonnet. However, there are almost too many possibilities from which to choose, and the list lengthens almost daily. I personally didn’t find the ending an easy out, especially if one considers the mass graves of the concentration camps, manmade “craters”, and especially the very last place mentioned, New York. Ground zero is still a helluva deep crater and the mourning continues and will continue.
The poet poses two questions as well – what and why –, and muses over some possible answers. The when and where, then, are perhaps not nearly as important as the “who”, the victims of all of man’s inhumanity to man.
This sonnet, though a little bumpy metrically in its musings (perhaps like the helicopter ride) , conveys “with human yearning to sad thrones/The crash of battles that are never won.”
Sometimes there are no answers.
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