Zone (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Guillaume Albert Wladimir Alex Kostrowitzky
- First Published: 1913
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, France or French people, Twentieth century, Roads, streets, or highways, Religion, Paris, City life, Jesus Christ, Popes or papacy, Airplanes or jets, Technology, Religious life, Shepherds
The Poem
“Zone,” an exemplary modernist work, is a fairly long poem of 159 lines divided into thirty-four irregular sections; a section may contain only two words or be as long as twenty-nine lines. The title of the poem is as enigmatic as the poem itself. It most likely refers to the region just outside Paris where the indigent and homeless lived during Guillaume Apollinaire’s time. The poem’s form and content similarly inhabit a region just outside the normal boundaries for poetry.
The poem begins in the morning, a traditional starting place for narrative...
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