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Romance Poetry: Canzone
It’s that time of year again in the United States--February and Valentine's Day. However, instead of going on about love and romance in the traditional sense, this time I’d like to challenge each of you to go beyond your own sense of romance and love.
There are many types of love relationships from platonic, to paternal/maternal to romantic and intimate. None are exclusive to this time of year. I love my husband, my family, and my pets—who are part of that family. I love many of my friends, I love my job, my art, writing, and I love hunting down my ancestry.
So with this challenge I might create a poem that focused on that hunt for an elusive clue of where or why an ancestor moved away from where they were born and raised. I am in a monogamous hetero relationship, so I might try a love poem where the people involved were in a different kind of relationship other than the traditional one I’m in. Yes, it’s easy to write what you know, but this is a challenge. Write outside your comfort zone. Put yourself into someone else’s shoes.
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Now, here is a poetry form that leans towards a topic or theme of love.
Canzone
What can I tell you about the Canzone? It’s Italian, has lots of variations and, like many old poetry forms, it used to be set to music. There’s much more involved with this form that I might tackle in a future newsletter, but for now, I’ll just give some generalities.
MUST HAVES
--Topic/Theme: beauty, love, valor & virtue.
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Length of poem.
--Length of stanzas: traditionally at least 7 lines but not more than 20 lines.
--Meter. Traditionally 7 to 11 syllables per line.
--Rhyme.
OF NOTE:
While this form can vary wildly--even when following tradition, remember this form was once put to music. The poem should have a lyrical quality to it.
SOURCE NOTES:
Drury, John. the po.e.try dic.tion.ar.y. 2nd edition. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 2006. Print.
Turco, Lewis. The Book of Forms. 3rd. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2000.
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Theme: I couldn't find any canzones, so I selected some love poetry--but leaned more towards the non-traditional as often as I could be it love of a pet, a child or simply loving your true self.
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Comment: Go Phoebe! My thoughts are with you!  Thank you very much for including my item as well!
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Even taking in the older definition of skillful--which kind of applies to what I was saying--yes, I did mean craftsy. Thank you for clarifying :)
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