Les deux sœurs : guerre et poésie dans l’œuvre de Giraudoux

In Lectures pour une ombre, Dollero embodies a thoroughly human poetry, the only one that is audible in wartime, portrayed in Amica America by the poet Alan Seeger. For war has disfigured language. Subsequently, Giraudoux seems to completely devalue poetry but he celebrates Claudel and awaits salvation from this “new romanticism” in Littérature, where he declares that poets alone are capable of restoring “honor, luxury, blessings, and especially responsibilities” to the French people.