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Songs for Her and Odes in Her Honor

Songs for Her and Odes in Her Honor

Verlaine, Paul
Robinson, Richard
Robinson, Richard

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1735477672
ISBN13: 9781735477671
Publisher: Linda S Miller
Published: Feb 27 2021
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The first things that come to minds and lips, when thinking about Paul Verlaineʼs poetry, are music and nuance. It is through his heightened employment simultaneously and regularly of those two attributes, of those two mesmerizing attributes of his often absinthe-like poetry, that Paul Verlaine, the poet, really shines, - brightly, not incandescently, but fluorescently, like the greenish-blue polestar on a winterʼs night. But the poetry found in Songs for Her (1891) and Odes in Her Honor (1893) is somewhat contrary to the commonly held ideas of what Paul Verlaineʼs poetry is or should be, in terms of nuance; it is just as musically virtuosic or experimental as his earlier poetry was, which we all know and love. Because these are poems of mostly physical love, but also emotional love, between a middle-aged man and a woman (two women actually, just not à trois) - there is arguably little need for, and little use of, nuance. They are paeans to physical love.

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