Talk:Aubade

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What on earth does it mean to say that a poem isn't "quite up to metaphysical standards"? Does that belong in this article?

[edit] Relation to alba (poetry)

I think alba is the original langue d'oc name for it, and aubade is the langue d'oïl version, which presumably became more popular after the Albigensian Crusade. Tagelied is the Minnesinger version, and everywhere else seems to use the name aubade. Is that correct? If so, that can be made clearer on all the pages. Rigadoun 18:24, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Larkin poem

I'd argue that the lover is death as well as life - it's his strange obsession with death he parts with at dawn, not life (yet). Obviously this is in the ironic context of the fact that his base terror is of losing life. I know this isn't the place for literary criticism, I'm just saying it's not clear that it's one or the other. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.28.95.139 (talk) 10:23, 16 March 2008 (UTC)