Sonnet

Colin Hong
4/15/08
Ms. Shigemitsu
7:30
Superman


Hes jetting to get to the coffee store

Hes flying through the air, hes superman

Saving the world with all the latest lore

Saving the world from villains evil plans

Hes just a mild mannered reporter

Hes super strong, super fast, superman

His slouch makes him appear to be shorter

He solo fought all modern day Iran

He admires lois lane secretly

He saved her from falling from an airplane

Her man in waiting what he wants to be

Up top a tower he kisses Miss lane

Clark Kent is just a normal kind of guy

Hes our superman, flying through the sky




Colin Hong
Ms. Shigemitsu-7:30
4/15/08
Analysis of Superman
When me and my partner started writing this sonnet, we thought, there are so many lovely sounding sonnets out there, and we don’t want to have just another cookie-cutter sonnet. So we decided to try something different.
One thing we did differently was to make a two faced sonnet, one face sharply contrasting with the other. About half the sonnet is talking about Superman, and how amazing he is, and the other half is talking about how boring Clark Kent's life is. And these two halves switch off every line, usually with relating circumstances. For example, "Saving the world with all the latest lore" sharply contrasts with "Saving the world from villains evil plans". One is talking about keeping up to date with the news, and the other is about how superman saves the world. In fact, I believe this is where the sonnet really shines. You see, what we did was we created two distinctly different views of life, however they are linked together by a single, unchangeable fact. The two seemingly opposite people are in fact one and the same. Clark Kent is Superman, and in our sonnet, while one is dealing with daily toils, the other is fighting crime around the world.
Another element we changed was we started the 1&2, 3&4, 5&6 etc lines off with almost the same beginning, even while they had completely different meanings. For example, take the quote I used last time "Saving the world with all the latest lore" and "Saving the world from villains evil plans". Both of these two lines are exactly the same up to syllable five, and therefore this gives the sonnet an interesting, if repetitive rhythm.
While our sonnet is not the most poetic sonnet ever written, or even the deepest, where it really shines is in its ingenuity and its risk-taking. For one, I doubt many people have written a sonnet about superman. But seriously, me and my partner Conner tried many new things, and that is why I are proud to say we wrote Superman.