Verlaine’s longstanding taste for nonsense is recalled in one of his late poems and in a song by Lepelletier. This articles resituates the concept of “galimatias double”, mentioned in the epigraph to the parody poem “À Clymène,” in its context. I provide a commentary on this poem, which belongs to his small collection of nonsense poems, and identify the connections between intertextuality and intermetricity, as well as its relations with neighboring poems, and two of his earlier poems.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-10091-1
EAN:9782406100911
ISSN: 2426-8860
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-10091-1.p.0121
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 02-24-2020
Periodicity: Annual
Language: French
Keyword: Paul Verlaine, nineteenth-century literature, Fêtes galantes, humor, the comic, nonsense, intertextuality, meter