Fir Trees (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Guillaume Albert Wladimir Alex Kostrowitzky
- First Published: 1909
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Magic or magicians, Nature, Music or musicians, Poetry or poets, Forests or forestry, Trees, Time, Astrology or astrologers, Seasons
The Poem
First appearing in the French publication Le Voile de Pourpre (1909), “Fir Trees” was later published in Guillaume Apollinaire’s Alcools (1913) as one of nine short poems that make up the Rhenish suite. The poems were written during his stay on the Rhine in Germany from August, 1901, to August, 1902, as a tutor in the household of Vicomtesse de Milhau. In its original French, “Fir Trees” is composed of six stanzas of five eight-syllable lines, with six-syllable middle lines and a rhyme scheme of aabab.
“Fir Trees” is a purely...
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