Which of the following poems is the best example of villanelle? Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Dylan Tho

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Which of the following poems is the best example of villanelle? Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Dylan Tho

mas’ “Do not go gentle into that good night” Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale”

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lianna [129] · Answer 1 · 2022-08-29T14:02:09+03:00

lianna [129]3 years ago

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The correct answer is Dylan Thomas' "Do not go gentle into that good night"

You can recognize that it is a villanelle because it consists of 19 lines separated into five tercets followed by a quatrain.

Bumek [7] · Answer 2 · 2022-08-29T16:00:04+03:00

The best example of villanelle is Dylan Thomas’ “Do not go gentle into that good night”.

<u>A villanelle is a lyrical poem that includes nineteen lines</u>. Moreover, <u>a villanelle is structured with five tercets, that is to say a three line stanza, and a quatrain, a stanza consisting of four lines, at the end</u>. The poem "Do not go gentle into that good night" written by Dylan Thomas is a villanelle because it has nineteen lines: five tercets and a quatrain. One of the main themes of this poem is death.