Ted Berrigan Sonnets

Ted Berrigan’s Sonnet LIX was most appealing to me, since it mentioned Marilyn Monroe and the name was familiar and seem to make reference to Marilyn having died, in which she is dead and it was as if the poem was referring to her and a dead Doctor and how upset Joe Brainard was over this. That is my interpretation of this Sonnet. The other one was okay I couldn’t grasp any meaning from it, but I did notice almost towards the ending of both of the Sonnets the words I Love You. I didn’t see any significance for those words in Sonnet XXXV, but in LIX it made more since to have those words. I felt the I love You was referring to Marilyn Monroe, since she was a movie star loved by millions.