Sonnet : Traditional Sonnet
Toaster’s True View
Innocent they seem, with springs and dials
Plugged in waiting for the command to brown
Toasting bread to perfection with style
No effort they use to make a great frown
They humbly wait for your command each day
With only the intentions to please you
They fulfill your command without a pay
And always make crunchy toast that you chew
But the great machine is an evil beast
Turning your white bread into a burnt brick
It does not care about your morning feast
It waits each day with eager to burn your toast
Turning each morning into a dark roast
Sonnet 2: Untraditional
The Drop Fly
The fly whipped upstream of the Musconetcong
Free-falling into the ripples below
Plunging into the depths, forever gone
Streaming the line out of the reel quite slow
The fly clumsily darts through the clear stream
Catching the eye of the glimmering beast
It spontaneously jumps at the nymph
Creating tension, the weathered line creased
Old in age they are, living life day-by-day
The trout keeps fighting, losing ground
The trout is in the net, still
The man looks through its mouth, the fly now found
The beast is released, slowly gliding away
The flys’ casted back out, it lives one more day
Trout= Life
Fly=day
Man= death
Explication:
The meaning behind the three characters are life, time and death. The trout represents your life, swimming around freely, with no knowledge of death. The fly, with no life itself, mirrors time. Each it is reeled in shows time moving forward and at one point, a creature will hit time and no longer have life. The man behind the reel is to represent death. This death would not be your typical grim reaper, but more of a godly figure, deciding as to when it is one's time to go. The inconsistent rhymes are to create of sense of awkwardness as the fly would be creating in the water. Also, death is a misplaced phenomenon in the world, making death awkward in life as well. During lines 10 and 11, there is a major loss in syllables, wavering from the traditional 10. The reason behind these lines is to create distress from the pattern, much like the fish is feelings now that it is caught. In near death experiences, your breathing slows down and it is shorter. Thus when the trout was about to be "killed", it would be slowly breathing, thus the reason for not using as many syllables, then when the trout escapes death, it resumes its life normally, with the iambic pentameter resuming. In short, this poem is about becoming old and living each day without the true understanding of death. When you think you are hooked by the fly and cannot escape, death might just through you back on into the stream, because there is a bigger fish to fry than you.
Explication:
The meaning behind the three characters are life, time and death. The trout represents your life, swimming around freely, with no knowledge of death. The fly, with no life itself, mirrors time. Each it is reeled in shows time moving forward and at one point, a creature will hit time and no longer have life. The man behind the reel is to represent death. This death would not be your typical grim reaper, but more of a godly figure, deciding as to when it is one's time to go. The inconsistent rhymes are to create of sense of awkwardness as the fly would be creating in the water. Also, death is a misplaced phenomenon in the world, making death awkward in life as well. During lines 10 and 11, there is a major loss in syllables, wavering from the traditional 10. The reason behind these lines is to create distress from the pattern, much like the fish is feelings now that it is caught. In near death experiences, your breathing slows down and it is shorter. Thus when the trout was about to be "killed", it would be slowly breathing, thus the reason for not using as many syllables, then when the trout escapes death, it resumes its life normally, with the iambic pentameter resuming. In short, this poem is about becoming old and living each day without the true understanding of death. When you think you are hooked by the fly and cannot escape, death might just through you back on into the stream, because there is a bigger fish to fry than you.
