Ballade of the Too-Young Deleted
Kat--I'm showing you mine.This was originally posted to the alsopreview.com board after a "systemglitch" deleted a whole group of just-posted poems. It's nowhere nearas inventive as Mike's, but it was...
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Jason,I liked this one a lot--very funny--and it helped me understand the ballade form a little better.lulu
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May we be spared such a fate! I heard an echo of "Where are the snows of yester-year" (Villon by way of D. G. Rossetti) but get the feeling I'm missing more obvious allusions. The ephemeral qualities...
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Eric--The only deliberate allusion besides the Villon/Rossettione is to Spenser's *Faerie Queene*, Bk. I, Ct. I, Stanza 18, l. 9:"God helpe the man so wrapt in Errours endlesse traine."I was too busy...
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Jason --first off, really funny. Mike & I were just talking about the Villon ballade, as he was trying to teach me tetrameter. Yours helped me immensely. I think I got it. My own ballade is still...
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Kat--Thanks, I appreciate it, and hope the poem helps as a model,although it's certainly not perfect (the repetition ofthe first line, for instance, isn't orthodox, although anumber of 19th C. poets...
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