Queen Isabella: Danse Macabre. "DEMANDING JUSTICE" AN INTRODUCTION (2016)

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Queen Isabella:

    Danse Macabre


"Demanding Justice"


                            

AN INTRODUCTION

                                    By J.Beck


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Queen Isabella: Danse Macabre "Demanding Justice"

is based upon a time-line of historical events in the 14th century in England between two decades from 1307 to 1327.

 

This story-board was written solely of my own deductions from my imagination based upon my own personal research.

Before & not after reading any deplicts of the exhausted period by countless other authors' symposings.

 

To explain the format & charactoristics of this text:

The format is also the archetecture of my own creative madness

I have combined the Haiku & Sonnet together to create Sonnet chapters of numbered Haiku Sonnet verses.

 

There are 14 Haikus compiling each of the 14 Sonnet chapters.

 

There are 14 Sonnet chapters compling the complete text to come full circle.

 

(There is NO deliberate rhyme scheme as in the traditional sense of Sonnets)

There is alot of repetition to emphize certain aspects as well as becoming redundant as an ironey/a mockery.

In Art repetition can imply motion.

You will realize that it regulates the speed of reading within the confines of the strict haiku format of 17 syllables(5-7-5)

 

The reason the Sonnet & Haiku can be blended together is that each one by definition is a short/small story.

So I am telling a Haiku stories inside Sonnet chapters of a Sonnet story.

At the time of my conception of "Queen Isabella I was influenced by Gertrude Stein & Jack Keruac. Which aided & provoked this concise format.

There is the element of conciseness being intimate with both compiling formats of the Haiku & the Sonnet.

Where in the repetions gains further emphasis & meaning for which is possibly lost in more exhausting terms of elaborate detail contextually.

 

One note to the reader:

The word "Between" is a key word to follow throughout the text.

&

I would advise the reader to read in "between" the lines.

To read what is said & what isnt said but could be implied or deducted.

 

I would have hopes of provoking the reader to ask questions & to make their own deductions depending upon the level of my audience's graditude.

This story is multi-layered to be read at face value as well as hidden meanings implied physically emotionally & spiritually.

 

There is a structurial appeal in the hybred format to this text.

Affording a fore-shadowing outline conpiling the Sonnet chapters of Haiku Sonnets.

I have deliberately deployed the devices of

in Poetry heavily purposely & organicly which makes up for the lack of structured rhyme in my mind.

 

I have done all of the work solely from conception to research. I have hand written manuscripts.

(With hand drawn illustrations (Perhaps for a future project) that aided in the creative process.)

Manuscipts that were I transfered developed & revised into the digital Haiku-Sonnet format that I created.

 

After futher revisons I edited the complete text once I completed numbering & spell-checking.

The final word count was 40,739.

There are 2,758 Haikus with 196 Sonnets & 46,886 syllables.

 

A second note to the reader:

There is one variation.

There should only be 2,744 Haiku Sonnets & 46,648 syllables if I were to be stricter. But I elected to leave an extra Haiku Sonnet in the final text.

In my Defense:

I justicified this in the sense that this format is strictly an experimental format which affords a degree of libirty to me as the poet & editor.

(& I could not choose between the two Haiku Sonnets (Nor could I blend the two together)because they both seem vital to the complete text of the story.)

& approperately it is the end of the "Turn" at VIII: XIV:14

which I identified & numbered them as a & b:

There are "Turns" throughout the text but they are not always where a stricter brand of this format could produce.

 

The story-board that I am presenting/protraying is contray to the popular belief from the historical Rhetoric that has endured the Ages from Medievil Times.

What has survived are Chronicles of propoganda that served the masses at the time.  That was a source & means of slander that served their 14th century purposes.

My storyboard is based on dates & events of the time period in relationship to the main charactors to create this story that emphasises the idea of Duty--Strong Necessity & Self Preservation in such a periless period steeped in violence religous zeal & superstition.



July 5, 2016


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READ:

QUEEN ISABELLA:

DANSE MACABRE


"DEMANDING JUSTICE"

BY J. BECK

(2017)

https://youngsopranos.blogspot.com/2025/11/queen-isabella-danse-macabre-demanding.html?m=1


I CREATED THIS POETRY/NARRATIVE FORM OF

"HAIKU-SONNETS"




PRINCESS

ISABELLA OF FRANCE



On 25th January 1308 a young French Princess walked up the Aisle in the Church at Boulogne in Northern France


The 1308 Wedding of
King Edward II and Isabella of France
was a Lavish but Politically Fraught Event 

A Marriage Intended 
To Secure Peace 

Between
England & France



PRINCESS ISABELLA OF FRANCE
BECOMES

THE YOUNG
QUEEN OF ENGLAND


(W/ WEDDING & BRIDE'S DRESS DETAILS OF JANUARY 28 1308)




FURTHER 

BACKGROUND REFERENCES:




The

Book of Thomas

The Fool


From:

Queen Isabella

"Demanding Justice"

https://youngsopranos.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-book-of-thomas-fool-from-queen.html?m=1






QUEEN ISABELLA


HOLDING KING EDWARD II'S

HEART INSIDE A SILVER BOX



ENGLISH MONARCHY'S

THE PLANTAGENETS

BETWEEN 1307--1399

https://youngsopranos.blogspot.com/p/english-monarchys-plantagenets-between.html



THE

KNIGHTS'

ROUND TABLE




WHICH AI RESPONSE

DO YOU TRUST?

https://youngsopranos.blogspot.com/p/which-ai-response-do-you-trust.html


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