Poetry of Revolution: Romanticism and National Projects
influence his career as an educator and poet. Durand worked in the tin industry in the years immediately following high school a ...
information about the circumstances which led to its publication, it does seem likely that Durand’s friend and mentor, Haitian d ...
Votre élève d’hier, aujourd’hui vous convie A faire un bon accueil à ses Rires et Pleurs ; A les prendre en pitié, quoique dans ...
Haiti compared to the relative calm during Boyer’s rule, it is no wonder that Haitian thinkers look more to literature for natio ...
Ainsi qu’à l’occident, lorsque le soleil pâle S’amincit par degrés et plonge dans les flots, Des flocons empourprés, brillant au ...
J’ai chanté nos oiseaux, nos fertiles campagnes, Et les grappes de fruits courbant nos bananiers, Et le campêche en fleurs, parf ...
By focusing on elements of the Haitian landscape, Durand reveals a distinct source of poetic inspiration which Delorme and many ...
prefigures the quotes of Haitian poets to be found at the beginning of several poems in the first book of Rires et Pleurs. As me ...
Durand’s French and Haitian references attest then to the dual nature of his writing as he reconciles the established French tra ...
aimé.”^194 Similarly, the tone and purpose of Durand’s “Dédicace” are reminiscent of Victor Hugo’s preface to Les Contemplations ...
3.3 THE MAKINGS OF A NATIONAL POET AND THE VICISSITUDES OF A COLLECTION Durand’s collection as a whole remains difficult to clas ...
Durand’s lengthy poem begins as one poet invites the other to come away with him to dream. This invitation includes communion wi ...
mango and palm trees. Nature certainly belongs more to Durand’s semantic field than to Coicou’s. The descriptive details in late ...
These verses articulate what Haitian poetry is not addressing. The muses’ indictment within this poem conveys that poets knew ab ...
poets affirm the primacy of nature in poetic inspiration. Regardless of the country’s turmoil, the commitment to pursue traditio ...
between one poet and his muse. The poet addresses this “ville de poète où la brise est si douce!” that he associates with many j ...
Ont eu cette larme bénie, Et Musset dit que l’harmonie Est la fille de la douleur. (163-167) In the next section of the poem, th ...
Durand’s career, do suggest he was initially a poet who wrote extensively about love and nature, mostly during the 1870s. Only l ...
this poem to commemorate the life and works of a Haitian poet about whom little information is available in current texts. Accor ...
could be encapsulated in the memory of the then well-known Ducas Hippolyte. As Pompilus points out, this very public poem indeed ...
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