60 Sonnets 'Original' And 'Streamlined'

<I>60 Sonnets 'Original' And 'Streamlined'</I> respects poetic traditions. The main feature of the collection an aggregation of 120 Shakespearean sonnets may be a recurring movement in favor of rigor that has no punctilious formal traditionality.Whatever subject matter might be seen in various examples many of the sonnets might seem gripping; however the entire secret of <I>60 Sonnets 'Original' And 'Streamlined'</I> probably ends up being in the strict form of the Shakespearean sonnet itself as that basic structure repeatedly is 'honored and obeyed' at least in terms of rhyme pattern meter and the requisite number of lines.</p><P>Here are the opening stanzas of CLXXIX and 179:</p><P><I>Though newer ways to film and televise<br>the subtle shadings of reality<br>may long enhance the lives of human eyes<br>man still will scarcely have the power to see.</p><P>That film & better television could<br>be giving the entire great human race<br>a clearer sense that nature may be good<br>is no real proof that humans can have grace.</p><P></I>The book's main thrust is highly linguistic--highly grammatical--in that the derivative (the 'streamlined') versions may tend to have veneers that seem otherworldly.</p>