Triple Crown
By Eric Chevlen
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Triple Crown is the only triple heroic crown of sonnets in the English language. The interwoven poems deal with 3 aspects of reality: universal, societal, and personal. The first cycle retells the story of Creation. The second describes the conflicts of the kings of ancient Israel. In the final cycle, Job describes his suffering, and rails against a world which appears to be devoid of justice.
Eric Chevlen
Eric Chevlen is a medical oncologist living in Youngstown, Ohio. He is the author of the only triple heroic crown of sonnets in English.
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Triple Crown - Eric Chevlen
Introduction
Triple Crown is the only triple heroic crown of sonnets in the English language. I believe it is the only such poetic work in any language. Therefore, some words of introduction are certainly appropriate, probably helpful, and possibly necessary.
A crown of sonnets is a series of sonnets linked one to another, such that the last line of one poem is repeated as the first line of the subsequent poem. This process continues until the loop is closed by the last line of the last poem’s being repeated as the first line of the first poem. A classic example of this is the exquisite seven poem crown of sonnets by John Donne entitled, aptly enough, La Corona.
A heroic crown of sonnets is a sonnet crown consisting of fourteen poems linked as described above. The added feature which makes the heroic crown more than simply a longer collection of poems is that the linking (repeated) lines of poetry themselves comprise another sonnet. Thus, a fifteenth sonnet is implicit in the fourteen sonnets explicitly stated in the heroic crown. This fifteenth sonnet is called the magistral sonnet. As an added feature, the magistral sonnet is often an acrostic, with the acronym embedded within it pithily summarizing the theme of the entire set.
One can represent a heroic crown of sonnets, then, as a series of small filled circles linked together by a larger circle, something like beads on a necklace. It will be readily apparent that one could have three such circles, with each circle intersecting the other two at two places. One of the sites of intersection is common to all three circles. (See figure below.) Each cycle of poetry, therefore, will contain three poems whose first lines also serve as first lines in poems of the other two cycles. This is the fundamental structure of Triple Crown.
Triple Crown contains several other structural features. Naturally, the magistral sonnet of each