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A sestina (Italian: sestina, from sesto, sixth; Old Occitan: cledisat; also known as sestine, sextine, sextain) is a fixed verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally followed by a three-line envoi. The words that end each line of the first stanza are used as line endings in each of the following stanzas, rotated in a set ...
Arnaut Daniel (Occitan: [aɾˈnawd daniˈɛl]; fl. 1180–1200) [1] was an Occitan troubadour of the 12th century, praised by Dante as "the best smith" (miglior fabbro) and called a "grand master of love" (gran maestro d'amore) by Petrarch. [2] In the 20th century he was lauded by Ezra Pound in The Spirit of Romance (1910) as the greatest poet ...
On the relationship between form and content, Anne Ridler notes in an introduction to her own poem "Villanelle for the Middle of the Way" a point made by T. S. Eliot, that "to use very strict form is a help, because you concentrate on the technical difficulties of mastering the form, and allow the content of the poem a more unconscious and ...
The tornada from "Tant ai mo cor ple de joya" by Bernart de Ventadorn (fl. 1130–1200), an early example of the form. Tornadas can serve a number of purposes within poems; they often contain useful information about the poem's composition—often able to identify the location and date of the poem's composition, and the identity of members of the troubadour's circle—and several tornadas ...
1985–present. Genre. Fiction, young adult, children's picture books. Notable works. Shadow Baby. Website. www.alisonmcghee.com. Alison McGhee (born July 8, 1960) is an American author, who has published several picture books, books for children, and adult novels. She is a New York Times bestselling author, and the winner of numerous awards.
The pentina is an accentual - syllabic poetic form, characterized by the use of five verses of five lines each, with a two-line envoi, for a total of 27 lines. It is similar to the French form, the sestina, which is characterized by six verses of six lines each, with a final 3-line envoi. Its creation in 1995 by American poet and songwriter ...
Alone (Poe) "Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe. " Alone " is a 22-line poem originally written in 1829, and left untitled and unpublished during Poe's lifetime. The original manuscript was signed "E. A. Poe" and dated March 17, 1829. [1] In February of that year, Poe's foster mother Frances Allan had died.
The sole poem written in villanelle form is “Near-to-the-Water” (page 71). The use of sestina and villanelle, both European forms (French- and Italian-based forms, specifically), in a book of Navajo-specific stories, serves to portray the author's resistance to the loss of cultural and individual identity.