The Sonnet Echoes: The Concentric Symphonies for Circular ReCreation

In its history of more than 700 years, the European sonnet has brought a blossoming body of numerous 14-lined poems. In their resounding echoes, notable variants were also written, including Guillaume Apollinaire's 12-line piece "Cors de chasse" and Elinor Wylie's 16-line work "Parting Gift." In this paper, the mechanism of the sonnet's fruitful power is discussed, referring to the humanist concept developed with the Renaissance, besides the showcased poems in intertextual expansion.