Comments on: informal talk about forms: the villanelle

By: read write prompt #12: dressing up your poetry at Read Write Poem

read write prompt #12: dressing up your poetry at Read Write Poem — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:09:08 +0000

[...] at all; just use them as a starting point. If you’re obsessed with clothes, why not write a villanelle, the ideal poetic form for expressing [...]

By: diatribalArts

diatribalArts — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:40:48 +0000

posted on the wrong thread by mistake, so posted again here.

http://diatribalarts.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/her-hands-are-cold/

By: Noah

Noah — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:03:09 +0000

I thought I’d try my hands at one.

Of course, I didn’t realize I used the word time three times.

http://noahthegreat.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/dinnertime/

By: gautami

gautami — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:34:10 +0000

I love writing this form. At one time I never wrote anything other than structured poems. Villannele was on tops.

Here is the link to my Villanelles, in case anyone is interested.

http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/search?q=villanelles

By: Christine

Christine — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:39:37 +0000

Tom, thanks for this explanation, and for the leads on the books. I’m going to try to combine the villanelle with math. We’ll see what happens!

By: dale

dale — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:38:00 +0000

Lovely discussion of the villanelle. Thank you! I’m a big fan of the first two books you mention, which makes me think I’d better pick up the Kinze.

By: Poems on my block « Mariacristina

Poems on my block « Mariacristina — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:29:29 +0000

[...] you’re interested in poetic forms, head over to readwritepoem for Tom’s post on the villanelle. I wrote the prompt for this week, combining math with [...]

By: Tiel Aisha Ansari

Tiel Aisha Ansari — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:04:13 +0000

There’s a really good prosody guide at http://www.volecentral.co.uk/vf/index.htm and another, more technical one at http://www.trobar.org/prosody/

I disagree about the obsessiveness of the villanelle. As I see it, the challenge of the villanelle is to make the repetitions not _just_ be repetitions– the poem should move ahead with each stanza, so that the significance of the repeated phrases changes.

For obsessive, seems to me you can’t beat the pantoum…