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Thread #70201   Message #1196819
Posted By: beardedbruce
29-May-04 - 08:13 PM
Thread Name: What's up with Korea?
Subject: RE: What's up with Korea?
Some published in Mobius, a lit. magazine. Not much call for the structured forms, these days.
I have written a number of Italian sonnets, and some varients. Done some coronas as well, and one sonnet redouble. ( see other threads)

"In the old days a poet used to sweat turning out a sonnet, say. Very difficult form. Exactly 14 lines, all of them hung together with rhyme, rhythm, meter, perfectly. It was too much work for the poet, so blank verse and then free verse came in. And then anarchy. The new poet never bothered to learn how to write a sonnet, or to measure his lines in correct meter and to follow a rhythm system. He dashed off his inspired poem in a matter of a half hour and was surprised when after a few decades of this people stopped reading poetry."

Among the Bad Baboons, by Mack Reynolds
Copyright 1968 Galaxy Publishing Corp.