Rêves en vers Les poèmes oniriques de Verlaine

Verlaine used the dream-poem genre more than a dozen times. Distinct from the reveries and visions he also wrote, he deploys dream narratives and their outcomes in various forms: allegorical or religious dreams, romantic fantasies, satirical and political dreams, erotic dreams, and so on. The poet borrowed various forms for this purpose, playing skilfully with syntax, punctuation, and the art of repetition and discontinuity.