The sonnet, Sonnet by Billy Collins, is about a sonnet. Collins writes basically in terms about the sonnet he is writing. He starts out writing about the sonnet and even telling how many lines a sonnet has. Then he goes into the aspect of the "medieval" parts of the sonnet. This is not a traditional sonnet because, number one, it does not rhyme. He is baiscally poking fun of the traditional sonnet by doing so and naming his sonnet, sonnet. He also speaks about different people who write sonnets, basically picking on them. For example, "Elizabethan" referes to a sonnet by Shakespeare.
This sonnet was one of my favorites in all of the other assigned readings because it was the most interesting to read. It was not just straight words because you had to read between the lines and even do a little bit of reasearch to figure out what the arthor was saying and what he meant by what he said when he was poking fun at other writers.
Work Cited:
Booth, Alison, and Kelly J. Mays. "Sonnet." The Norton Introduction to Literature. 10th ed. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2010. 1073. Print.
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