Fanfiction: Ursa Departs (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

[nebroadwe]

Title: Sonnet: Ursa Departs
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Character(s): Ursa
Pairing(s): None.
Rating: G
Word Count: 107
Warnings: None.
A/N: I was mugged by a sonnet on Friday and spent the weekend recovering from the shock and then pummeling the mugger into (barely) postable shape. Sonnets are hard -- and I'm not sure why I keep diving into seventeenth-century poetry and poetic forms when I write Avatar 'fic -- cf. here and here -- but perhaps it has something to do with being an English major. Concrit welcomed with pretty rooms (and bonus gold to aery thinness beat to anyone who spots the reference :-). Crossposted from nebroadwe to avatar_fans and avatarfic.
Dedication(s): For William Shakespeare, il miglior fabbro.

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She's never gone but where her going's known
Nor come but where her welcome is assured --
Hawk-heralded, by rumor's wings outflown;
What's needful to her comfort long procured
Or whistled up in haste; her way prepared
By liv'ried outriders, as fits her state;
Her hosts all deference, no effort spared
To earn her gentle protest of surfeit --
Till now, when with laborious steps and sore,
She gains the ridge's broken summit, spent --
Behind, the royal court, her home no more;
Ahead, the desert of her banishment --
Like an explorer at the utmost North,
For whom all ways are one, and that one, forth.

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[Acknowledgments: Avatar: The Last Airbender was created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko; copyright for this property is held by Viacom International, Inc. All rights reserved.]

Comments

[artemisrae.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. I don't know the first thing about attempting to write a sonnet, so I can't comment technically, but major points for making it pretty, making it flow well, and, you know, for even attempting it, because it's something different and interesting. I approve!

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The praise of the praiseworthy, etc. :-) I'm not sure why I attempted this, except that the first two quatrains came by and socked me over the head at work. I haven't seen much 'fic poetry in any of my fandoms except the angsty adolescent free verse that everyone writes and then destroys sometime after graduating from college, all but the copy you gave to your best friend, who then embarasses you with it at your thirtieth birthday party. Maybe I can start a fashion for sonnets?