Another Modern Sonnet

Here is another modern sonnet, by e. e. cummings....who liked to play with capitalization and punctuation for fun and poetic effect...it's not because he is a bad writer.

life is more true than reason will deceive by e. e. cummings 

life is more true than reason will deceive
(more secret or than madness did reveal)
deeper is life than lose:higher than have
—but beauty is more each than living’s

allmultiplied by infinity sans if
the mightiest meditations of mankind
cancelled are by one merely opening leaf
(beyond whose nearness there is no beyond)

or does some littler bird than eyes can learn
look up to silence and completely sing?
futures are obsolete;pasts are unborn
(here less than nothing’s more than everything)

death,as men call him,ends what they call men
—but beauty is more now than dying’s when

What's a Sonnet?

Today we learned what a sonnet was, essentially, and learned some new terms that you'll be responsible for: 

• Sonnet
• quatrain
• couplet
• iambic pentameter

You should also know the following terms already:

• line
• stanza
• end-rhyme

Homework:  You need to write your own sonnet (using the handout) due Thursday!  It can be loving, appreciating, or admiring anyone or anything!  I'm writing one about pizza!