{"id":6803,"date":"2026-08-14T18:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/poems\/sonnet-i\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T18:20:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:20:26","slug":"sonnet-i","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/poems\/sonnet-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet I by Danil Rudoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dr-poem-page\">\n<section id=\"sonnet-i\">\n<p><strong>\u201cSonnet I\u201d by Danil Rudoy<\/strong> is a fourteen-line poem from <em>Love Is Poetry<\/em>. Desire, guilt and self-deception are compressed into a form that keeps returning to story, ending and the wish to understand its own direction.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"poem\">\n<h2>Sonnet I<\/h2>\n<div class=\"dr-poem-text\">\n<p>My dear Lord! I tried to numb the inner,<br \/>And yet amid the pains, divine and lewd,<br \/>Revolving and prepared to protrude,<br \/>There was a name that grew, becoming thinner.<br \/>Indemnity is not for such a sinner,<br \/>Not even respite, much less quietude:<br \/>A rascal, it aspires to elude<br \/>Before its humble servant\u2019s served for dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Of that I could compile another story,<br \/>Narrate it to the shadows of the past,<br \/>Or just pretend the sonnet is perfection\u2026<br \/>Lies bring but solace, not an allegory;<br \/>I wouldn\u2019t mind if this one were the last.<br \/>Someday I\u2019ll know the depth of this direction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>2012\/2013, October 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"publication\">\n<h2>Publication<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cSonnet I\u201d appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/love-is-poetry\/\"><em>Love Is Poetry: Rhyming Poems About Love Life<\/em><\/a>, in <em>The Heartless Muse<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"sonnet-form\">\n<h2>Fourteen lines under pressure<\/h2>\n<p>The poem names its own form while questioning the comfort that form can provide. Story, allegory and perfection appear as possible shelters, yet the final line leaves the speaker inside an unresolved \u201cdirection.\u201d Formal closure therefore intensifies the uncertainty it contains.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"related-reading\">\n<h2>Related reading<\/h2>\n<p>Continue with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/poems\/the-heartless-muse\/\"><em>The Heartless Muse<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/poetry\/\">Poetry by Danil Rudoy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/love-poems\/\">Love Poems by Danil Rudoy<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/rhyming-poetry\/\">Rhyming Poetry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"rights\">\n<h2>Text and citation<\/h2>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 Danil Rudoy. The poem is published here as the author\u2019s canonical text. Short excerpts may be quoted for criticism, scholarship, teaching and literary discussion with attribution to Danil Rudoy and a link to this page. Full reproduction requires separate permission.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSonnet I\u201d by Danil Rudoy is a fourteen-line poem from Love Is Poetry about desire, guilt, story, self-deception, and the pressure of formal closure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["dr-evergreen-document","dr-schema-creativework"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}