There is another modern poet Charles Causley who has written number of sonnets but his “For an Ex Far East Prisoner of War” is very special for modern times. Any reader of English poetry should read Brooke’s sonnets. There are twentieth century poets like Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) and A. The line “watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken” beautifully expresses the excitements of the new discovery. Keats has maintained the correct sonnet-form without missing the lyrical feeling in it. It is easy for an ordinary poet to write a sonnet but the lyrical feeling may get lost in composing the form. Look’d at each other with a wild sunrise – Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes Then felt I like some watcher of the skies Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold,Īnd many goodly states and kingdoms seen Keats’s sonnet “On first looking into Chapman’s Homer” is highly lyrical poetry written in the Italian form. However, in Milton’s sonnet on his blindness, there is no such clear break between the octave and the sestet. Great poets like Milton and Wordsworth used the Italian form.
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