LilyWhite
Breathing
Help this blackbird! There's a stone around my leg.
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Post by LilyWhite on Jan 12, 2006 21:43:51 GMT
Oh my God Al you used to talk to yourself? Oh this style just looks too hard.
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Post by Al Truest on Jan 13, 2006 2:37:33 GMT
Oh my God Al you used to talk to yourself? Pathetic huh? That was before everyone was on to my ruse. Some would find it less of a challenge than the sausage form. However, I find it too ridgid to practice it as an expression. I sound pompous.
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Post by karmamama on Jan 13, 2006 7:47:55 GMT
Oh my God Al you used to talk to yourself? Pathetic huh? That was before everyone was on to my ruse. Some would find it less of a challenge than the sausage form. However, I find it too ridgid to practice it as an expression. I sound pompous. Perhaps you just have a sausage stuck up your villanelle? That's a bad joke, but it is quarter to 3 in the morning
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Sheila
Moving
Life is a minestrone served up with parmesan cheese.
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Post by Sheila on Jan 13, 2006 17:25:32 GMT
That was before everyone was on to my ruse. Not everyone...
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LilyWhite
Breathing
Help this blackbird! There's a stone around my leg.
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Post by LilyWhite on Jan 15, 2006 8:36:40 GMT
I can try to write a Villanelle I can maybe rant But I assume it would be hell.
What if I tried and fell? I'd look like an ant. I can try to write a Villanelle.
Yeah well it's hard to tell If or if not I can't But I assume it would be hell.
Al Truest has rung the bell But I still think I can't I can try to write a Villanelle
Can I? Hard to foretell I struggle and I pant But I assume it would be hell.
Ok tried it don't know if I fell but at least I tried to chant I can try to write a Villanelle But I assume it would be hell.
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Post by Adey on Jan 19, 2006 3:20:27 GMT
A bold effort Lily.
Although I can appreciate the form, personally I always find Villanelles slightly artificial - as if the art that underpins them has been compromised somewhat, in order to meet the very demanding requirements of the style.
Obviously, the exception to this must be "Do Not Go Gentle.." and a prize winning piece penned by my old music teacher (now a full time poet), which you'll find on the main Poetry board somewhere..
Good luck if you fancy another go, but I wouldn't blame you (or Sheila) if you never looked at the villanelle form again!
Maybe someone here IS a fan of this particular style?
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Post by Kevin2 on Jan 19, 2006 19:35:57 GMT
Here's one from Frank Scott, and which appears on Leonard Cohen's "Dear Heather" album.
I particularly like the "reshaping narrow art" lines.
7. Villanelle For Our Time
Words by Frank Scott (1899-1985) Music by Leonard Cohen
From bitter searching of the heart, Quickened with passion and with pain We rise to play a greater part. This is the faith from which we start: Men shall know commonwealth again From bitter searching of the heart. We loved the easy and the smart, But now, with keener hand and brain, We rise to play a greater part. The lesser loyalties depart, And neither race nor creed remain From bitter searching of the heart. Not steering by the venal chart That tricked the mass for private gain, We rise to play a greater part. Reshaping narrow law and art Whose symbols are the millions slain, From bitter searching of the heart We rise to play a greater part.
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blah blah All in all, Lily, I like your Villanelle quite well
blah blah All in all, Lily, I like your villanelle quite well
blah blah All in all, Lily, I like your villanelle quite well
blah blah All in all, Lily, I like your villanelle quite well
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