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A fantastic example of a modern sonnet is Carol Ann Duffy Prayer https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-prayer-annotated https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-prayer-
by seanhunter 4y ago
A fantastic example of a modern sonnet is Carol Ann Duffy Prayer
https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-prayer-annotated https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-prayer-annotated
For people who are not from the UK, the last line comes from the shipping forecast[1], a strange British tradition which is much-loved extremely obscure to the unfamiliar.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping_Forecast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping_Forecast and it’s worth hearing an example which they have here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shipping_Forecast.ogg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shipping_Forecast.ogg