The sonnet parody is very simple: it makes fun of the sonnet’s rules and themes. But in reviewing a handful of these mocking sonnets, I wonder if they reveal opportunities for humor in the sonnet form itself and, if we go back to the original poems they mock, perhaps subtler instances of humor in those ostensibly “serious” sonnets. Yet so many poets have had a good time making fun of these very tropes, creating their own sonnet parody genre in the process. Popular views of the sonnet are that this fourteen-line poem deals with unrequited love, lovesickness, heartbreak, relationship problems, or themes of political love-none of which seem like particularly funny topics on the surface. ![]() ![]() A friend and I have been puzzling about whether sonnets are, by nature of their form and conventions, essentially funny poems.
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