S6 canon-based sonnets.

[lit_luminary]

I wrote these months ago and never posted them, so I might as well rectify that.  (If you like them, please see the 'sonnets' tag for others.)

Comments

[lit_luminary]

I wasn't bothered by the comment--actually, when I post poetry, I've learned not to expect many comments, so it was wonderful to get one at all. I was delighted you tried my sonnets, since I can only imagine how difficult it is to read poetry in a foreign language. (I was very interested in the introduction to Italian poetic meter, so don't worry that you went off-topic with that.)

And there is, in my book, no such thing as a comment that's too long.

I generally do respect canon--at least when canon has earned it--but you make a valid point in saying that my view of the Dibala situation is through an American lens. I don't draw parallels between that and physician-assisted suicide (and no one should, frankly, for the sake of accuracy as well as ethics), but even growing up in the culture I have, I find the death penalty problematic: killing a murderer doesn't solve anything.

In this case, I can accept Chase's actions because of the numbers (i.e., one death instead of two million), but I would have preferred that Dibala had been dealt with by the U.N. or some other legitimate body before genocide became a concern.

[damigella_314]

Glad you weren't bothered!
As per Dibala, my very scant knowledge of the history of the Third World is that killing a blood-thirsty dictator doesn't necessarily improve the situation (points at Iraq, whistles).
Plus, killing someone as their attending physician, using medicine to do it, is a terrible, terrible crime. It's sad that canon shows the Catholic priest telling Chase he has to go the police - because that's not what was told to the child-raping priests.
I was even upset about someone using a "happy happy joy joy" tag to describe Bin Laden's murder - in their place, I would have wanted him to rot in prison, and I can't ever be happy about a death, no matter how many murders the killed person has on his conscience.
[My country (Tuscany) abolished death penalty more than two hundred years ago, afaik as first in Europe.]

[lit_luminary]

Point again: killing the bloodthirsty dictator really doesn't do that much appreciable good. Real life isn't a fairytale, where everything is solved once the hero kills the villain.

(As far as Dibala, I remember thinking when I watched the episode that "the moderates are taking over; there's hope for peace talks" was at best a gross oversimplification of what was likely to be a bloody process. Whatever can be said about the means [and I admit that many damning things can be said], Chase's intentions were good--but ironically, he may very well have ended up making a bad situation much worse.)

I live in NY, and could see the smoking ruins of the Towers against the skyline from my home, about 20 miles away. I'll never forget 9/11. But shooting Bin Laden didn't undo anything, and didn't bring us any closer to stopping the wars. (It seems so stupid, so meaningless, to go to war for vengeance and answer murder with more deaths.)