DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here: "At the Archaeological Institute of America's Annual Meeting" by Ernest Hilbert Originally read: May 25, 2013 More information about the Poet: Ernest Hilbert So I didn't know this was a variation on the sonnet form until I read his bio.  Then I scanned the poem, and saw how the variations fit with the idea of the poem -- a sort of befuddled chaos of a colony of academics trying to figure out their place in history, "O, ungrateful hordes! Archaeologists / Mill through the hotel lobby".  Well, maybe not as grandeur, but the form (which I think resembles an Elizabethan sonnet because of the couplet at the end) shows the attempt to contain the humor and seriousness of the situation of "metaphorical action to stay in Academia, parallel to the work Archaeologists should be doing." Past me put down basically, "archaeology should be doing" because their action is compounded with the accenting verbs to create a...