Monday: Villanelle

 * Open

• Grammar
• Please punctuate:
  "The art of losing isnt hard to master
  so many things seem filled with the intent
  to be lost that their loss is no disaster."

• Villanelle: A French verse form consisting of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain, with the first and third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas. These two refrain lines form the final couplet in the quatrain (The Poetry Foundation).  The form is not ancient and has mostly been employed in modern times. 
• Etymology
• Italian: villanella: rustic song
• Italian: villano: peasant
• Latin: villanus: farmhand 
• Yes, this word is related to villain; bru, ha,ha!
• Read and answer the following questions (Journal 14):
• Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
  • The House on the Hill
  • 1. Why does the speaker repeat himself if "There is nothing more to say"?
   
• W. H. Auden (1907–1973) 
• "If I Could Tell You" 
• 2. Who is the speaker?  Who is the speaker addressing?

• Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
• The Waking
• 3. "Great Nature has another thing to do / To you and me" (13-14).  What is that thing?  Defend your answer. 

• Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
• One Art 

• 4. Ask yourself: What is the art?  Is it hard to master?  Has the speaker mastered it?  How do you know?

•  Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
• Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
• 5.  Why does the speaker give this advice to his father? 

Dylan Thomas...inspired Robert Zimmerman to recast himself as Bob Dylan