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Vers libre is a free-verse poetic form of flexibility, complexity, and naturalness [22] created in the late 19th century in France, in 1886. It was largely through the activities of La Vogue , a weekly journal founded by Gustave Kahn , [ 23 ] as well as the appearance of a band of poets unequaled at any one time in the history of French poetry ...
Si ton sol est petit, dans un monde nouveau L'avenir qui t'appelle a planté ton drapeau. Refrain: Marche joyeux, peuple énergique, Vers des destins dignes de toi. Dieu protège la libre Belgique Et son Roi ! Ta longue paix autant que longs combats Au travail exerçait ta vaillance, Et tes progrès disaient à chaque pas Ton génie et ta ...
These three similar terms (in French vers libres and vers libre are homophones [20]) designate distinct historical strategies to introduce more prosodic variety into French verse. All three involve verse forms beyond just the alexandrine, but just as the alexandrine was chief among lines, it is the chief target of these modifications.
A self-referential jab at long words and needlessly elaborate language in general. Si comprehendis [,] non est Deus: if you understand [something], it is not God: Augustine of Hippo, Sermo 117.3.5; PL 38, 663 si dormiam capiar: If I sleep, I may be caught: Motto of HMS Wakeful (H88) Si monumentum requiris circumspice: If you seek (his) monument ...
Clavería Boscán affirms he was born between 1487 and 1492, [2] and another sources affirms he was born in 1501. [3] His father Garcilaso de la Vega, the third son of Pedro Suárez de Figueroa, was a nobleman and ambassador in the royal court of the Catholic Monarchs. [4] His mother's name was Sancha de Guzmán. [5]
Aurelio de la Vega (November 28, 1925 – February 12, 2022) was a Cuban-American composer, lecturer, essayist, and poet. He wrote numerous works in many forms and media and, from the early 1960s, was an active force on the United States musical scene.
"The Song of La Palice" (in French: La chanson de la Palisse) is a burlesque song attributed to Bernard de la Monnoye (1641–1728) about alleged feats of French nobleman and military leader Jacques de la Palice (1470–1525). From that song came the French term lapalissade meaning an utterly obvious truth—i.e. a truism or tautology. When you ...
He was a writer of vers libre and founded the highly influential journal Entretiens politiques et littéraires (1890–92). [2] He wrote symbolist and vers-libre poetry. His first collection, Cueille d'avril, appeared in 1885. He practiced a relaxed prosody, which did not take into account the obligatory alternation of masculine and feminine ...