Canon Discussion: A Case of Identity

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This week we’re having a look at A Case of Identity. I’ve typed up a few thoughts to get the discussion going—please leave your own ideas in the comments!

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Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: A Case of Identity

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Welcome once again to my poetry page!

I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then be inspired to write a poem related to it in some way. All forms of poetry are permitted, and further down the page there is a selection you might like to consider using over the coming weeks.


This week my featured form is concrete poetry.

poets.org gives the following definition:

While many readers now associate the term “concrete poetry” with poems whose outlines depict a recognizable shape, the ideas behind concrete poetry are much broader. In essence, works of concrete poetry are as much pieces of visual art made with words as they are poems.

It was Miss Sutherland’s profession that inspired me to borrow one of those newfangled typewriters and have a go at producing poetry of this kind. My poem is specifically a reply to a Valentine that I received from a certain “mysterious admirer” last week:


( Example poem )

As always, this is simply something to consider for the future. (I await with interest seeing concrete poems in the comments…) Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:

221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, clerihew, concrete poetry, epigram, haiku, limerick, palindrome poetry, sedoka, sestina, sonnet, tanka, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triolet, tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by A Case of Identity in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!

Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

A Case of Identity: The Female Form

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Canon Story: A Case of Identity
Title: The Female Form
Author: scfrankles
Rating: PG
Author's Notes: "As to the letters," he continued, glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once.”


“Women,” said Watson.

“Hmm…?” Holmes put down his book.

“Sometimes I do wonder…” Watson blushed. “...how well you… know women.” He looked away. “Never mind! None of my business!”

Holmes frowned. “Watson, I am not as innocent as you think. I am intimately acquainted with the female body.” He found his page again. “I’ve dissected at least three of them.”



A/N: No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.⸺ Honore de Balzac

A Case of Identity: The Dundas Separation Case

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Canon Story: A Case of Identity
Title: The Dundas Separation Case (as reported in the Marylebone Illustrated)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

Here is the first heading upon which I come: "A husband’s cruelty to his wife"

The magistrate ruled that while he was in favour of a wife being obedient to her husband, the behaviour of Mr Dundas was more than any dutiful wife could be expected to endure.  False teeth, the magistrate opined, were best either in the mouth or kept in a glass of water.  They should not be used as a casual weapon.