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Originally posted by Michael Cantor:
Snelsonnetry, however, dumbs things down . . .
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Originally posted by Jim Hayes:
I agree with M. Cantor, this form is really too easy
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The form’s too easy, dumbs things down, you say? What of the sonnet? The English golden age saw thousands of them, hundreds read today--clowning, loving, mourning upon the page. Romantics too produced them by the score, Millay alone one hundred seventy-six, a hundred times that number by Merrill Moore.* Cummings wrote dozens, for all his graphic tricks. Each day more thousands flood the internet, many met with cheers (and some with booing), and not a hint of its abating yet. The form’s too easy, dumbed down, not worth doing? A form’s as good as any writer makes it, as bad as any hack who undertakes it.
*Moore taught himself shorthand so he could write down the sonnets he composed while walking between classes; he had written some nine thousand by age 25, and his “autobiography,” M, is a sequence of a thousand sonnets.
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P.S.: As the English sonnet soon modified the Italian, so the Irish snelsonnet (ABAB CC) apparently modifies the Dutch.
