Friday, August 5, 2011

Can you write modern fables?

I love the use of the sonnet form with extended lines. This gives that old world effect but with a modern twist. A friend of mine, Frederic Vanson, liked to write sonnets with extended lines - some would be pentameters then he would throw in the odd extended line. But yours is unique. I like the line: 'makes the average working man a hatter mad to Alice.' This is the turning point of the poem and from then on the magic dissolves into the modern idiom, 'the girl will leave her underpants.' I love the rhyme with 'dance'. This poem is full of little twists and turns. Your poems always have something new to say and a different way of saying different things. Brilliant.

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