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Originally Posted by Top Secret DG
Full disclosure: I tend to be a traditionalist. So when I first looked at this piece, my thought was "This is a sonnet?" As a reader, I probably would have passed over it with no further ado.
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With ALL due respect to the DG, this statement worries me. I would hope that the DG was selected for his / her stature as a poet and critic, rather than his / her ability to do what seems to be the more political thing and try to make a broader judgment. I wish we saw the poems that resonate most with the DG, rather than a more calculated smattering.
As for this poem, I care for neither its form or content. It's not the lack of concrete imagery, so much as the lack of sonnet
feel, as others have mentioned. Sure, I'd never call this a sonnet because of its form, but more importantly it just doesn't have
any of the sonnet elements. Might as well call a haiku a villanelle, and a sestina a ballad.