Introducing Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Woods: A Prose Sonnet”
Channel: Michael Ullyot
Date: 08/04/2020

An introduction to the prose poem "Woods: A Prose Sonnet" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.  

Sonnets are usually viewed as conventional, 14-line poetic forms. They may have different lengths, but we rarely extend the definition of this poetic type further, to think of them as generic. 

Because of its unconventional form, Emerson's prose poem offers us a chance to think about the sonnet as a genre.