All 4 Uses
sonnet
in
A Wrinkle in Time
(Edited)
- In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet.
p. 218.8sonnet = a form of poetry consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
- And if the poet does not do it exactly this way, it is not a sonnet, is it?
p. 219.3
- You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet?
p. 219.6
- You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.
p. 219.8 *sonnet = a form of poetryeditor's notes: Mrs. Whatsit is comparing living life to writing this kind of poem. She explains to Calvin that a strict form must be followed, but that there is freedom within it.
Definitions:
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(1)
(sonnet) a poem consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme schemeAs an example, here is Shakespeare's 17th Sonnet:
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies:
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should my papers yellow'd with their age
Be scorn'd like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And stretched meter of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice; in it and in my rhyme. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)