Billy Collins, in his Sonnet “Sonnet” illustrates the rejection he has towards the traditional sonnet through this free verse. Collins uses some of the conventions as the traditional sonnets; Metaphor, connects a sonnet to a “little ship on love’s storm-tossed seas”, implying the absurdity of attempting to preach love in fourteen lines: Another metaphor, “iambic bongos must be played”, states the necessary rules of sonnets, in this case the iambic pentameter rhyme scheme, govern how to write a sonnet. Billy Collins includes themes such as the irrationality of the length of the sonnet, the end of the traditional sonnet, the beginning of the contemporary sonnet, and individuality and free thought within his poem “Sonnet." Collins recognizes
