The Modern (Sonnet)

With the advent of free verse, the sonnet
came to be seen as somewhat o
ld-fashioned and fell out of use for a t
ime among some schools of po

ets. How
ever, a number of 20th-century poets, includin
g Wilfred Ow
en, John Berryman,

Edwin Morgan, Robert Frost, Edna
St. Vincent Millay, E.E. Cummings, Jorge Luis Bor
ges, Pablo Neruda, Joan Brossa, Rainer Maria
Rilke, and Seamus Heaney continued to use the for

m. The advent of the New Formalism movement
in the U.S. has also contributed to contemporary interest in the sonnet.