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Walking home (again)
Aug. 3rd, 2010 07:08 pmMarn: You understand the idea of a volta in sonnet form, right?
Rio: Well, first you write about your mum. Then you write about hot dogs. Then you tell them your mum likes hot dogs.
Marn: ... Where did that come from?
Rio: I made it up.
(I hadn't realised Rio had grasped the dialectical idea of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, which is fundamental to the sonnet, well enough to express it that clearly.)
Rio: Well, first you write about your mum. Then you write about hot dogs. Then you tell them your mum likes hot dogs.
Marn: ... Where did that come from?
Rio: I made it up.
(I hadn't realised Rio had grasped the dialectical idea of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, which is fundamental to the sonnet, well enough to express it that clearly.)
