L’image des Bretons dans Les Amours jaunes : du réalisme à l’idéalisme

Distancing himself from a family environment that was hostile or indifferent to Breton-language culture, Corbière displays strong empathy for common people in his work. His poems particularly describe beggars, pilgrims, and soldiers. Of the former, he presents a vision that is either idealized or larger than life. But, even when caricatured, these people are glorified because the poet considers their scars to resemble those of Christ. He sympathizes with the fate of the Breton army who were incarcerated at Camp Conlie. Corbière, moreover, sprinkles his poems with references to the Breton language, which are all tributes to a culture whose uniqueness he was one of the first to celebrate.