Poetry of Revolution: Romanticism and National Projects
A ceux que tout captive et que rien ne torture; Non, ce n’est pas pour moi que la terre a des fleurs, Que sifflent dans leur nid ...
Massillon Coicou in Durand’s collection, likely referenced in verse three as rires and pleurs. In the analysis of Durand’s poem, ...
In Coicou’s “Introduction,” the poet not only expresses his intent to focus on national heroes and national history, but he acce ...
heroes. Revolutionary ideals, present strife, and future hopes and fears account for the vacillating tones and topics in Coicou’ ...
much of Haiti’s consistently stated mission had been to defend Africans from racial prejudice and practices. Seventy years later ...
Horace, in the dichotomy between Troy and Rome, symbolically alludes to the same major theme we find in Vergil’s Aeneid (focused ...
“Patrie,” which can only be realized in poetry, becomes a transcendent national ideal which will surpass internal divisions. Mov ...
historical allusions unknown to many current scholars. This means that a lot of attention will be devoted to political and histo ...
until 1862, became more interested in Haiti as in other Caribbean locales for strategic reasons by the 1890s, when intervention ...
which not only degrades and blasphemes the memory of the Haitian Revolution but also continues to jeopardize Haiti’s present and ...
Coicou’s time, it is a warning to the elites who exploit the general population and who will stay in power given any means as we ...
administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.^273 La Tortue, or Tortuga Island as it is known in English, is located to th ...
Môle seemed to be less of a factor when the United States secured a naval base in Guantanamo Bay Cuba in 1903; however, in Coico ...
B.C.E., as a period of intermittent civil war. As political unity degenerated, other aspects of culture and individualism, both ...
Mais tel le nautonier, quand la mer se déchaîne, Je monte à la vigie et préviens le danger. (61-64) The rhyming words of étrange ...
Coicou’s depictions of the inevitable point to an almost intangible and expansive power, one not always specific to any nation p ...
and through violence that the colonized man finds his freedom.^278 Additionally, and in anticipation of Coicou’s focus on race w ...
A majority of this poem is devoted to claiming historical difference of various degrees. This eventually culminates with the spe ...
presence of the other, further complicating the situation and increasingly Haitian vulnerability at this point in history. The “ ...
the spirit of capitalism, all redefining time as a commodity. It is the second half of this verse, “Le crime aussi,” which revea ...
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