Poetry of Revolution: Romanticism and National Projects
composer Occide Jeanty sometime in the late nineteenth century.^236 This poem recounts the incredible transformation of Haiti’s ...
Domingue. This reframing of alliances recalls Dessalines’ efforts at national unity when the Haitian constitution referred to al ...
poems attest to his ability to separate these celebrated aspects of French history and culture from France’s practice of slavery ...
in the late nineteenth century than as an anti-colonial writer, all the while maintaining a focus as national poet. Durand’s def ...
will flow more beautifully and easily. Poems about the Haitian Revolution can only be told if the poet had the plume of Dante. H ...
Si j’avais l’oreille des grands...si j’avais l’honneur d’être député [...] j’irais même jusqu’à demander qu’elle soit de 300 gou ...
4.0 NATIONAL POETRY AND FATEFUL POLITICS: THE WORK AND LEGACY OF MASSILLON COICOU 4.1 INTRODUCTION To begin this chapter I retur ...
Haitian culture and thought? In a land that has constantly relived its past, how can we imagine a Haitian future?^244 These time ...
which led to this act would be frequently questioned, and attempts to uncover the details surrounding his death and debates abou ...
Haitian military was part of Coicou’s family heritage. Pierre-Louis died when Massillon was just eight, and he was raised by his ...
playwrights. Even at this young age, much of what constituted a national poet for Coicou also had to do with the place in which ...
be a defining period both personally and professionally. In 1891 he returned to the Lycée Pétion, this time as a teacher of hist ...
component of all civilization. Given these qualities, he argues, poetry precedes even a people’s history: Elle est coéternelle à ...
It is from Greece that Williams seamlessly transitions to Rome, as he speaks in more detail about Horace and Vergil. These two p ...
beginnings and its implications for “la race noire.” Vergil’s poem also maintains a universal appeal as a text about the destruc ...
beginnings of a national identity.^255 The same critic who makes these observations about Latin literature also illustrates the ...
is not only frequently a source of the poet’s anguish, but it may also very well lead to persecution and martyrdom, Williams spe ...
As Williams explains it, a poet’s project will also be a spiritual endeavor, and historical figures are considered nearly synony ...
Mistral, he understood that modern progress meant the demise of traditional Provence.^263 His provençal verse can simultaneously ...
been poems about love and nature.^265 It appears that he too changed the focus of his writing to poetry which was more committed ...
«
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
»
Free download pdf