L'Anguille

L'Anguille (FR) The Eel. Poulenc's setting (1931, Quatre Poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire #1) for baritone (or mezzo-soprano) voice and piano of the 28th poem from Il y a (There Is, 1925, posth.) by Apollinaire. The poem first appeared in Les Soirées de Paris on 15 May 1914. The poem »1909« from Alcools (Alcohols, 1913) contains two lines, one exactly the same as a line from »L'Anguille«: »elle riait elle riait« (she laughed she laughed) the other remarkably similar: »les yeux bleus les dents…