Correspondence (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Henri Coulette
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Communication, Letter writing, Birds, Moon or moons, Light, Sun
The Poem
“Correspondence” is a short, three-stanza poem without rhyme or meter, but with a loose 4-4-5-4 beat pattern in each stanza. “Correspondences” is a traditional title or subject of a poem. The French Symbolist poet Charles Baudelaire, for example, published a poem in Les Fleurs du mal (1857; Flowers of Evil, 1909) entitled “Correspondences,” and the modern American poet Robert Duncan also used the title “Correspondences.” It is a word with two meanings. Poems are often addressed to someone and are therefore a kind of letter, a form of...
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