Jason argues that the “villanelle is often used, and properly used, to deal with one or another degree of obsession.” The repetitiveness inherent in villanelles suggests this obsessiveness, and Thomas’s poem is no different, as the speaker calls on the dying to take on an obsessive concern with fighting death.
In a discussion of Sylvia Plath’s “Mad Girl’s Love Song,” Philip K. Villanelles, which originated in the ballads of late medieval French poetry, are uncommon in modern poetry. What is the impact of the poem’s structure?
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