Aubade

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Our theme today is Aubade. An Aubade is a morning love song often concerning the parting of lovers at daybreak. One is expected to find an intense feeling of love and loss.

The tradition of aubades goes back at least to the troubadours of the Provençal schools of courtly love in the High Middle Ages.^[4] The aubade gained in popularity again with the advent of the metaphysical fashion in the 17th century, says Wikipedia.

 

This genre has evolved with time with the focus shifting from its original specialized courtly love context into the more generalized theme of a human parting at dawn.

 

Phillip Larkin’s Aubade focuses on bleak thoughts of death as dawn approaches. 

Thomas Merton’s Aubade – Harlem  is the realization that the experience of waking up in Harlem is ‘fearful’ for the light of day makes it impossible for the poor to evade or ignore their plight.

Write an Aubade. How do you see the coming of a new day? Would you go the traditional way? Would you like a positive presentation of the dawn? Or would you prefer a hostile response to the dawn given what the modern world has turned into?

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