ENGL 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Wild Man, Villanelle, Zeugma And Syllepsis
28 Mar 2018
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Villanelle: comes from folk song, seen in french folk songs, constant refrain coming back through each verse. Allowed people to easily learn the words, and then dance. Milieu as the source for this form: 19 lines, 5 tetsets and a quatrain aba2 aba1 aba2 aba1aba2 aba1. Feels that it is okay to grieve, writing it will eternalize her grief: emotional loss leads to creativity -- the prominence of emotion in poetry and art. Happiness doesn"t make a good story, rather tragedy, grief, suffering and passion: someone that is going through grief is challenged to find forms that allow her to express herself. Question of the repeated lines: the repetitive lines continuously change, although are reminiscent of each other. "the art of losing isn"t hard to master" to "the art of losing isn"t too hard to master: vilanelle although the poet has worked with a form, although adds a natural flexibility to best suit her form.
