guardian.co.uk / poster poems 4 (#2) artistofideas ["BOKE" username disallowed by guardian site] Comment No. 1060019 April 20 19:44 [ As the ship named Rhetoric cruises past Poets Isle due to a navigational error caused by the categories of "narrative" and "sonnet" (an error surely not to be repeated soon:) ... a Sunday DVD review, sonnetized for concept illustration purposes only ;) ]   At last I've seen "Atonement" which I'd skipped because I somehow knew it was a tale told by a child you'd rather see hard whipped than be raised up the mast to be our sail ...   ... to pull us to the shores of destiny. And so the oft-praised first part made me slip below the surface: "Yes, that's all I'll see. An evil child wrought 'tragic' comic strip."   But by the midpoint's letter I'd been won. "THE STORY CAN RESUME ..." Don't we all wish to hear those words when our dead ends are done? Some hope beyond the belly of the fish?   And yes, tears at the end, when we embrace "reality." Old evil child's (art's?) grace.