This article proposes a new reading of the obscure poem “Entends comme brame”. The complexity of the text may be explained by what we call here an ‘aesthetics of the vague’ which consists in the stylistic transposition of the evocation of a nebulous atmosphere. Our analysis clarifies the lexical and grammatical ambiguities, decodes the hermetic tropes and identifies the intertextual references. Caricaturing the clichés of romantic description, Rimbaud’s poem renews the genre by a radical disorganization.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-11265-5
EAN:9782406112655
ISSN: 2262-2268
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-11265-5.p.0215
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 12-28-2020
Periodicity: Annual
Language: French
Keyword: description of nebulous moonlight, aesthetics of the vague, hermetic encoding, criticism of romanticism, pastiche of Verlaine