TeaTimeSunday / SONNETS
BUFFY-VERSE SERIES (86)  SONNETS 87-90 of 154  (91-94)
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BtVS EPISODE #118 (6.18) "Entropy" ONE-HAIKU (EPISODE) RECAP: The one where Anya tries to get someone to WISH ... VENGEANCE on Xander |
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SONNETS #87-90 for Tea Time in L.A. #35 - TOPIC: "ENTROPY" ORIGINALLY POSTED AT (UPN) WWW.BUFFY.COM ... BEFORE ALL FORUMS WERE DELETED 9/19/02 ... CLICK THE BRONZE SKULL TO SEE ARCHIVE COPY OF (NONCOLOR) VERSION (FOR COMPARISON) |
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Rhetorical verse for Tea Time in L.A. #35 - (Talking about Buffy as Shakespeare would have. [g]) Posted by: forensicpoetry - May 01, 2002, 6:46 PM
rhetorical verse in Shakespearean sonnet form }
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my mind concerning last night's "Entropy."
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The path I trace constrained by formal verse,
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but on that highway new things I will see . . .
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I have agreed to follow by my choice
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of Shakespeare's sonnet form. My case unspools
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within constraints that give my soul its voice.
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TO BROADER IMPLICATIONS OF constraint
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within the Buffyverse. The facts we learn
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along the way constrain the tale they paint.
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The past constrains "the future" -- what will be.
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COHERENCE IN THE BUFFYVERSE demands
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the logic of the past not be undone
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by writers treating "facts" as shifting sands.
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THIS SONNET'S POINT? To bring into the sun . . .
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himself to story points that fit within
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the context laid before. Go with the grain
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of planks nailed down before that underpin . . .
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the house that Joss has built with such great care
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stands only if the writers know the laws
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that keep the walls suspended in mid-air.
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In two more sonnets I'll explain my call.
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A VENGEANCE DEMON NEEDS her power source.
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And Anya was transformed (when hers was smashed)
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into a normal girl -- which set the course
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for her romance with Xander that's now crashed.
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appear when that identity is gone?
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She wears no amulet (as is the case
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with her old vengeance friend who last tricked Dawn . . .
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YET all through "Entropy" it's Anya's goal
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(with clarity of wronged-girl monochrome)
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to get someone to wish her X to stroll . . .
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Repay his "disavowal" with pure hate
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THE PROBLEM WITH ALL THIS is Anya's got
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no power to make wish reality.
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Her vengeance demon friend explained the plot --
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"the fact" that vengeance demons are not free . . .
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themselves -- they must let others make the wish.
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AND ON THIS STUPID POINT our plot did hinge --
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that Anya went to ev'ryone to fish . . .
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BUT DUH! Who is the demon with the pow'r?
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Her vengeance demon friend could make it so
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if Anya made the wish. A WASTED HOUR!
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THE BOTTOM LINE: Dear writers, Learn the song!
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