Today, we are going to discuss "Laying in a Hammock..." by James Wright and look at two distinct ways to interpret the poem. Then we will move onto villanelles.
HW: Choose one of the pantoum and write a explication of it.
Where does the turn in a villanelle happen?
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A villanelle description according to aboutpoetry.com
Definition:
The
word “villanelle” comes from the Italian villano (“peasant”), and a
villanelle was originally a dance-song sung by a Renaissance troubadour,
with a pastoral or rustic theme and no particular form. The modern form
with its alternating refrain lines took shape after Jean Passerat’s
famous 16th century villanelle, “J’ai perdu ma tourtourelle” (“I Have
Lost My Turtle Dove”).
The villanelle is a poem of 19 lines — five
triplets and a quatrain, using only two rhymes throughout the whole
form. The entire first line is repeated as lines 6, 12 and 18 and the
third line is repeated as lines 9, 15 and 19 — so that the lines which
frame the first triplet weave through the poem like refrains in a
traditional song, and form the end of the concluding stanza. With these
repeating lines represented as A1 and A2 (because they rhyme), the
entire rhyme scheme is:
A1
b
A2
a
b
A1
a
b
A2
a
b
A1
a
b
A2
a
b
A1
A2
Other famous villianelles - One Art, The Freaks,
Mad Girl's Love Song The Waking
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