Sonnets cont.

I found Raymond Queneau’s 100,000,000,000 Sonnets interesting and fun to play with by rearranging the lines. I noticed that no matter which line was chosen, the rhyme scheme was still the same. Like the Shakespearean sonnets, it also contained 14 lines but the style is clearly different. In the reading by William Carlos Williams he talks about how poetry today has lost its measure. The verses and how they are written have changed. He mentions how the poems today focus more about what is being said rather than the structure in which it is written. We have come to settle for what is convenient and simple to read and understand. And by reading the sonnets by Queneau, Shakespeare, and Barrigan it comes to show us the measure and prose that Williams talks about.