envoi
- noun
- /ɑ̃ˈvwɑ/
- Literature
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envoi
- The poem ended with a heartfelt envoi that dedicated the work to her late grandmother.
Examples
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Daniele sees the lack of an envoi as an affirmation of Petrarch's initial declaration to change registers and thus not to adopt the courtly convention of the coda, for such would be less serious than the present instance requires.
Academic text (2003) -
The closing "Envoi" further links the supposedly distinct senses of sight and sound:
Academic text (2017) -
The lack of an envoi, whose normal function is to frame the canzone and dispatch it to the world, is significant.
Academic text (2003) -
An envoi would require a shift (in voice) to another level in a canzone that is already multivoiced.
Academic text (2003) -
But she'd loved the six six-line stanzas and the three-line envoi, she said; she loved the cruciate retrogradation.
Fiction book (1994) -
The author crafted an envoi to summarize the themes explored throughout the poem.
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Each collection of sonnets concluded with an envoi that tied together the main ideas presented.
Synonyms
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A short group of lines at the end of a poem that addresses someone
Surface Forms
Etymology
Envoi comes from French and means a 'sending', from envoyer which means 'to send'. So an envoi in poetry is like a short message 'sent' at the end of a poem, a small conclusion or dedication. Think of it as a poetic 'send-off', similar to the English word envoy, a messenger, which also comes from the idea of 'sending'.