Villanelle

According to Louise Murdy, “By definition, the villanelle is restrictive because it demands nineteen lines on two rhymes in six stanzas, the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternatively at the end of the other tercets, but both being repeated at the end of the concluding quatrain” (Sound and Sense in Dylan Thomas’s Poetry 96). Within Thomas’s villanelle, he chooses to repeat the lines, “Do not go gentle into that good night” and “rage,

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Villanelles, comprised of nineteen lines, five tercets and a quatrain, and a refrain of the first and third line of the first stanza, allow for much freedom within a verse. The freedom of the villanelle form has uses from poems of light verse to works such as Sylvia Plath’s “Mad Girl’s Love Song.” The latter poem focuses on the voice of a speaker who pines for her love, while she further enshrouds herself in repression of her experiences. Plath’s use of the villanelle form creates the effect of the

the recovery process can be harder. What if people could master the art of losing, meaning that losing so much could make a person more prepared to lose again? In Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art,” Bishop explores this idea with the clever use of a villanelle and becomes more aware of the persisting heartache of loss as she reflects on her own losses. Bishop writes “One Art” as if giving advice to another, but as the poem goes on, details get more personal and it becomes somewhat therapeutic to her.

The villanelle that stood out to me was Mad Girl’s Love Song by Sylvia Plath. This villanelle really spoke to me because it was so clearly about unrequited love and lies. Her use of personification and motion within her poem is very good. I can feel all her emotions into this poem- the sadness, the love, the hope of her lover to come back. It makes me think about all those stupid little crushes that I once had in middle school and even in high school because you believe that they are obviously the

understand. Readers will understand about defining poetry line terms, poetry elements matches the theme, and how both poems relates to the author’s activity. The type of poems Robinson used in the second volume collection are villanelles, ballads, and sonnets. A villanelle is a nineteen-line poem with two

poems share this similarity, the way in which both works or literature are constructed are vastly different. Plath uses visual imagery and poetical tercets to show the pain and suffering of the speaker in her poem, while Roethke uses the musical Villanelle and synesthesia to create his picture of the speaker’s inner thoughts and a sense of awakening. When reading the poem “Lady Lazarus” for the first time, the subject matter can be a little difficult to comprehend. The title of this poem and the

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the tone of anger Thomas wants to instill in us about death. He wants us to be angry that the end is near. The emotional urgency of Thomas’ message comes to fruition from the initial groundwork and underlying structure that the villanelle form lends to the poem. The villanelle form is originally designed for French which has more rhyming words than English. This form in English is then put at a disadvantage, just how people are disadvantaged by the foreknowledge they must one day die. In using an unnatural

the poem the speaker tells the reader his acknowledgement of learning as he lives through life learning individual awareness. The poem has a lot of assonance, alliteration, paradoxes, and internal rhymes being used. The poem is written in villanelle form, villanelle has nineteen lines and is made up of five three-line stanzas and one quatrain. Roethke’s poem “The Waking”, forces you to reevaluate your place in the world, how fate plays a role in what you feel and where you go. Throughout reading the