Villanelle Contemporary Context

Question 1

Single feature of the villanelle that 20th century poets most made their own

Answer 1

Absence of narrative possibility

Question 2

What is possible but the form refuses to

It does what refusing to

Answer 2

Figural development
Tell a story
Circles around and around
Go forward in liner development

Question 3

Suggests at the deepest level

Answer 3

Powerful recurrences of mood and emotion and memory

Question 4

The villanelle repeats ?

Two entire lines are repeated

Answer 4

One sound thirteen times and another 6

Four times

Question 5

The villanelle cannot establish
It leans toward
The subject of most is ? The formal properties of the villanelle address the idea of

Answer 5

A conversational tone
Song toward lyric poetry
Loss
Idea of loss directly

Question 6

Each stanza of a villanelle with its refrains becomes a series of

Answer 6

Retrieval’s