The Little Car (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Guillaume Albert Wladimir Alex Kostrowitzky
- First Published: 1918
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Voyages, France or French people, Europe or Europeans, Paris, 1910’s, War, World War I, Airplanes or jets, Automobiles
The Poem
“The Little Car” is written in free verse, its forty lines divided into six stanzas, excluding the calligram inserted in the middle of the poem. It is autobiographical, relating the feelings and impressions of Guillaume Apollinaire as he thinks back on his journey with friends from Deauville across the French countryside to Paris, where they enlisted to fight in World War I.
By providing the date, hour, and location of their departure, Apollinaire establishes a specific setting and moment in time. The mention of the “little car” in the third line, and...
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