Numerous recent conversations about the sonnet understand the volta as being crucial to the sonnet’s identity and its power. At another level, if one were to make a heat map of where the dynamic action of sonnets takes place, we all know where the white heat would be: at the volta. When you look at a block of text, you can gather pretty quickly that it’s a sonnet, or at least a near-sonnet. At one level, every sonnet is a concrete poem that represents a sonnet. Structurally, the sonnet is largely a field of expectation.
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