Uneducated
To never know the flowing waves of Prose Nor taste the honey-dew of poets' Words,To wonder how the purple heather growsAnd not deduce the altitude of birds;The rhetoric of Science was not taught,Nor...
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Aurora,I must say, I favour the Shakespearean sonnet form most of all; to me, it is the most effective.Your sonnet is beautiful, the sentiment uplifting, and your poetry full of "honey-dew" and...
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AuroraLeigh--Welcome to the Sonnet Board.Your main problem here is that your syntax, especially in thefirst 6 lines is so highly elliptical that about half of what youwant and need to say is missing...
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Thanks, Aurora. They ain't gonna civilize us neither. Regards, Huck & friends.
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Aurora,I expect to be called away from my computer momentarily, so I don't have time to do a detailed critique. I will return. Just be assured that if Jason spends that much time noting the weaknesses...
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AuroraLeigh,Even your name is poetic. Welcome!I enjoyed reading your sonnet very much, although I must agree with Jason in finding the mid-sentence capitalizations a distraction. I tried using this...
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Aurora,Jason makes some very good points. However, I want to let you know I like the sound of this. You make music even if your meaning isn't what it could be. Don't give up.Melissa
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Seems a shame to stutter already in the first three words. I know it's a very stick-up-bum and east-of-the-Atlantic attitude, but I jar every time I read or hear a split infinitive.Never to know...Peter
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The problems start for me when the first four lines end with a semicolon. They don't form a sentence since they don't contain a verb.The Random Capitalization is, frankly, annoying. The elided "a" in...
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