V

[Hayseed Huck]

Many people here have read Thomas Pynchon's
great novel V. For those who haven't, I offer
a summary in sonnet form.
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V

To Herbet Stencil, V was not a whim,
rather this woman came to symbolize
the meaning of all history, to him--
a formal pattern he could anaylze.

Profane was more concerned with ****
and yo-yoing on subway, sewer and terrace.
Encountering V, he veed her thighs-- grunt,
and probe unthinkingly her mons veneris.

Vera? Viola? Veronica? Victoria Wren?
Virgin or Venus? Venezuela or Vheissu?
The consonant once noted, Stencil grabs pen
and ink and inks a pattern from the clues.
Stencil's a nut; history has little pattern,
Profane's a schlemiel, and V? -- a trivial slattern.

HH

[hack]

Bravo.
I prefer "Gravity's Rainbow".

[Hayseed Huck]

Me too ...

Thanks for the reply.

HH

[Bar22do]

"Gravity's Rainbow" if any of the two... I must confess that to me both are hard to digest, somewhat like, in music, Stockhausen... but I probably resist becoming an intellectual.
A V sonnet, that's interesting. Here rhymes, bowing low/respectfully or not to their public, are justified. Because I know so little about right or shmucky rhymes, it's a mere observation, without conclusion, or rather, with a question mark.
On the whole, you managed to tame those huge contents rather well, or is it the sonnet that you tamed? One way or another, your poem is an experiment, one that makes me wonder how would read the summary of... say (to remain close) Gombrowicz's Trans-Atantyk, or Cosmos.
Welcome to Litnet, you're a fresh voice, let's enjoy what you're willing to share of your poetry and comments!
Best regards - Bar

[hack]

I must admit that it took two or three
reads of Gravity's Rainbow to convince
me that it is a marvelous work. By the time
I got around to it, the hype (and criticism)
got in the way. It wasn't what I expected.
I don't think it was what anyone expected.
That is the magic of it.

[Bar22do]

I must admit that it took two or three
reads of Gravity's Rainbow to convince
me that it is a marvelous work. By the time
I got around to it, the hype (and criticism)
got in the way. It wasn't what I expected.
I don't think it was what anyone expected.
That is the magic of it.

But what DID you expect?