Villanelles concentrate on dissecting themes of love, loss and challenge.
Choose three from below, based on your own interests
Throughout the decades, various writers of different genres have written their own villanelles. There are many famous examples of villanelle poems penned by notable authors:
- “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas emphasizes the need to experience a full life before its end.
- “The House on the Hill” by Edwin Arlington Robinson compares the speaker’s past with that of a dilapidated, broken house, with the repetition of lines like “there is nothing more to say” signaling his desire to let it go and move on.
- “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop discusses how to deal with the pain of loss.
- “Mad Girl’s Love Song” by Sylvia Plath talks of a love the narrator experienced that she isn’t sure she imagined or not. Through repetition, she emphasises how uncertain the speaker is on the realness of what she felt.
- “If I Could Tell You” by W. H. Auden describes how only time can tell what can and will happen in the future. It was written after the start of World War II, and was a commentary on the uncertainty experienced during the time.
- “Theocritus” by Oscar Wilde provides a take on Greek poet Theocritus’s depiction of lovers.
Villanelles concentrate on dissecting themes of love, loss and challenge.
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