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The Advisors Rebecca Sellers Terrible, Ohio State University
“The Advisors” is a villanelle, a French poetic form. A villanelle has nineteen lines in six stanzas, five three-line stanzas and a final four-line stanza. The first line of the first stanza becomes, approximately, the last line of the second and fourth stanzas. The last line of the first stanza becomes the last line of the third and fifth stanzas. These two ending lines then become the last two lines of the poem. This form seemed especially appropriate to convey the image of the advisers who listen, and listen, and listen once again. The most familiar villanelle is “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas. Rebecca Sellers Terrible is a bibliographer for the National Clearinghouse for Academic Advising at Ohio State University. Some of her poetry has been published in an anthology (Naked Verses) and in Tucumcari Literary Review. She can be reached at Terrible.2@osu.edu or (614) 292-6344.
Published in The Mentor on June 18, 2001, by Penn State's Division of Undergraduate Studies Available online at www.psu.edu/dus/mentor/ Privacy and Legal Statements | Copyright | © The Pennsylvania State University | All rights reserved | |
