MURTYMUSE

  For reading previous blogs on this blogsite click on ARCHIVE and then on any particular Year to read posts of that Year. You may also click on SEARCH and type the particular blog you need to read. Please also record your comment to mark your kind visit.  Contact: Dr BSM Murty, H-701, Celebrity Gardens, Sushant Golf City, Ansal API, Lucknow:226030 (UP), India /  Mob : +91-7752922938 (WApp) / 7985017549/  bsmmurty@gmail.com Other cognate Blogs : vibhutimurty&vagishwari.blogspot.com Shadow Sonnets Series   The following sonnets are a part of a poetic experiment by me. Each of them emanates from the first line of some of the famous sonnets written by the masters of the form. This experiment is a part of a book I am compiling on the Sonnet. More about this exercise can be read in my POETICA series of articles published on this blog. Comments are welcome. (The eleventh one here is an 'Echo Sonnet' inspired by some great poems/poets.) 16.   To me fair friend you never can be

  POETICA : 10                               ‘Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people’. -           Adrian Mitchell On the Sonnet By John Keats If by dull rhymes our English must be chained,    And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet              Fettered, in spite of painéd loveliness;                  Let us find out, if we must be constrained,           Sandals more interwoven and complete                To fit the naked foot of poesy;                              Let us inspect the lyre, and weigh the stress          Of every chord, and see what may be gained         By ear industrious, and attention meet;                  Misers of sound and syllable, no less                       Than Midas of his coinage, let us be                       Jealous of dead leaves in the bay-wreath crown;    So, if we may not let the Muse be free,                   She will be bound with garlands of her own.            Theme