Villanelle

And it's by the poet Dylan Thomas, a Welsh poet.

And it's another Villanelle that he has written to his dying father, even though his dying father is unaware that he's writing that poem.

But it's his way of getting the pain of the loss that he anticipates off of his chest.

And of course, it's very famous.

This was by Rutke.

He was actually a Pulitzer Prize winning poet.

And I seem to be picking all the Villanelles.

And these are all poems that have a very special structure to them.

Section 12.

Villanelle by Victor J. Daley.

Read for LibriVox.org by Alan Mapstone.

We said farewell, my youth and I, When all fair dreams were gone or going And love's red lips were cold and dry.

And this is Poetry for All.

And today we are sharing an episode that is part of a three-part series on the Villanelle.

And today's episode we focus on A.E. Stalling's wonderful poem titled Burned.

Abram, would you like to read this poem?

Oh, that's beautiful.

And you can certainly see that on display in this poem.

And this is, as we discussed, we've done a series on the Villanelle, but if you are just tuning in and you haven't heard those other episodes, maybe we can briefly describe the Villanelle form.

If you could visualize this, the majority of the poem is sets of tercets, or three-line stanzas, and at the end, there is a quatrain, or a four-line stanza.

And then I titled it Hunger, as we think of Gartha for hunger.

It's a Villanelle.

It's got some repeating lines the whole way throughout it.

Hunger.

And this is Poetry for All.

And today we're sharing the first episode in a three-part series on the Villanelle, with a close reading of Dylan Thomas' Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.

Abram, would you like to take a stab at this wonderful, well-known poem?

absolutely absolutely we'll try to do it with a little gusto this is this is a poem that demands are you ready for this this is a poem that demands some gusto

He's a wild man, that is for sure.

Absolutely.

Okay, there is so much to say about this poem, but maybe we could set up a little bit about who Dylan Thomas was, and then maybe we can describe what a Villanelle is, and then get into the poem itself.

Yes? Yes.