The Song of the Poorly Loved (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: Memory, Love or romance, Poetry or poets, Paris, Pain, City life, Creative process, London, Fate or fatalism, Nostalgia
The Poem
“The Song of the Poorly Loved” consists of fifty-nine stanzas, each five lines long. It is divided into seven sections, three of which have their own titles. Guillaume Apollinaire assembled it, probably in 1904, from poems and fragments he had written at various times over the previous few years.
The initial motivation for the poem came from Apollinaire’s own life: In Germany, he had met and fallen in love with a young Englishwoman named Annie Playden. He visited her twice in London with intentions to marry her, but she emigrated to America. The poem opens...
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