Exerting a form of power used
to manipulate a group who the
“powerful” feel the need to sup
press (and let’s look at why that
desire exists here)—to force that
group into submission, into an
obeisance to the “powerful”—is not
a sonnet. And if it is not a sonnet,
then I don’t know what might be
come the only answer to the What
is a sonnet? question, if I may be so
obvious. What in the world is a sonnet,
then? Can it possibly be this non-rhyming
example of answering What is a sonnet?
Or would said non-rhyming sequence neg
ate its possibility as holding forth as one?
