Reaction to Villanelles – Sarah

In case you couldn’t guess, Plath’s “Mad Girl’s Love Song” was my favorite of the four villanelles that we read. I personally enjoy repetition in poetry; I think it often adds passion to a piece because, similar to what Zach commented, it portrays something that the author/speaker just cannot get off of their mind. I think it’s quite obvious that the phrases repeated throughout a villanelle are used to depict the meaning of the poem itself but I do think that it’s necessary to bring up as that’s pretty much the appeal of the style. The format of the villanelle allows for a lot of emotion, which is the thing that draws me to poetry the most, so I thoroughly enjoy the style.