Trouver une langue / Finding a language
Rimbaud asserted that the poet’s mission was to “find a language”. Poetry is a kind of laboratory of fully modern language: the poet “would define the degree of newness awakening in his lifetime in the universal soul”. Rimbaud thus thrusts the poet’s work towards some utopian horizon, since “the tim...
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Artois Presses Université
2025
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| Online adgang: | ONIX_20250106_9782848324661_13 |
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| Summary: | Rimbaud asserted that the poet’s mission was to “find a language”. Poetry is a kind of laboratory of fully modern language: the poet “would define the degree of newness awakening in his lifetime in the universal soul”. Rimbaud thus thrusts the poet’s work towards some utopian horizon, since “the time of a universal language will come!” (letter to Paul Demeny, 15th May 1871). Mallarmé considers language as the inheritance of the mysteries of times gone by and sees the poet as “purifying the dialect of the tribe”. Are we then to understand that poetry irremediably turns its back on current language or rather that it manifests the truth of such language? |
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