In “L’Éclair,” Rimbaud imagines a love life made up of “amours monstres et univers fantastiques.” Given how closely love and desire are tied by the poet to monstrosity and the extraordinary, could we not apply this somewhat antithetical formulation to the work of Isidore Ducasse? Indeed, Ducasse’s poetry appears to be a transition between Romanticism and Decadence, between an eroticism of the ideal and its own refutation.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques