Are New Year’s resolutions useless or meaningful? Here are opposing views in verse.
These poems are in the form of a villanelle. The villanelle is a French and Italian form of poetry dating back about 500 years, and it features two repeating lines that come together in the final stanza.
‘New Year’s Resolution’
A villanelle
Evan Mantyk
Author
Evan Mantyk teaches history and literature in New York. He is also president and editor of the Society of Classical Poets.
