Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Write Sonnets
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Our Canadian friends at Cardus and Comment Magazine are hosting a poetry contest. Since this network has several poets, we thought some of you might be interested. The rules are below, but it needs to be a sonnet, so be sure to read up on that form. Here are the details:
Calling poets! Comment Magazine's second-annual "Making the most of college" poetry contest runs until July 1st, 2010.
The question: How does a 21st-century education lead you to respond to a 19th-century visionary? Write a sonnet which interacts in some way with Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias"—a refutation? an update? a round of applause? Imagine the poem afresh for university students 2010-11.
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.Email your submissions to [email protected] by July 1st. First-place winner takes $100 CDN and the p. 1 poem in our Fall 2010 print issue. Second- and third-place runners-up also get published later in the Fall issue. Enter today! Photograph by Scootie, used under a Creative Commons license.
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