sonnet

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Recent Examples of sonnet The title is borrowed from Elizabeth Alexander’s fourth collection persona poems, historical narratives, jazz riffs, sonnets, elegies, and a sequence of ars poetica which examines the Black experience through the lens of the slave rebellion on the Amistad and nineteenth-century American art. Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025 Millay’s sonnets reckon with the end of love not in a spirit of swooning regret but with brisk, sometimes cynical acceptance. A.o. Scott, New York Times, 1 May 2025 But in those years, Shakespeare would produce a bounty of plays, sonnets and poems that have been studied, modernized, adapted, saturized and lionized for decades. Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025 Read: Let our critic guide you through the power and paradox of an old-school sonnet. Natasha Frost, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sonnet
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Noun
  • The truth is that Korby won Christine over with kindness and a Pablo Neruda poem.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 17 July 2025
  • Like a poem, happiness is under no onus to mean something other than itself.
    Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
Noun
  • Whether belting out apocalyptic lyrics in overdrive or crooning heartfelt odes to love, Osbourne sang with unmistakable feeling and conviction.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2025
  • Both Nicks and Buckingham shared handwritten lyrics to their official social media accounts.
    Maria Sherman, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2025

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