Voorbeelden van sonnet

• The chapter looks at the metrical form of the sonnet, showing that there is considerable variation to both sonnets and theories of the sonnet.

• But the city he conjures up in that sonnet is sleeping and silent, and there are no magical bells to summon him back there.

• It reminded one of that snide definition of a sonnet as having three quatrains and a couplet but no poetry.

• This sonnet is split between the unredeemed barrenness of existential experience and the irrational act of faith.

• But these sonnets, written at different times as "portraits" of each, were to prove as unstable as his relations with the women who inspired them.

• In the love sonnets that he inspired, the strange, disruptive rhymes also became a music to complement emotional and spiritual themes.

• But the two media - carefully constructed sonnets versus staged, enacted representation - produce very different effects, especially with respect to implied authority.

• Its semantic split is not a border line that crosses the sonnet and divides it into intellectual and existential parts.