Poetry of Revolution: Romanticism and National Projects
The poet is alienated from the very community for whom he claims to speak and so in this instance intends to connect with Delorm ...
societal realities, the rires and pleurs of a poet’s existence, is not so dissimilar from the poet’s condition outside Haiti. Th ...
countryside.^198 He offered to be the tourist’s guide but also found the experience in the southern and eastern parts of Haiti t ...
Soumets la Terre, Les fleurs, les bois, Lyre! À ta voix. A ton mystère. (1-4)^199 Michael Dash, briefly alluding to the Parnassi ...
de lettres in Paris in 1888. Durand frequently read from Coppée’s works at “soirées littéraires” in Cap Haitian in the 1870s, ap ...
accords to the Haitian countryside in both books of his collection. The impact of Herder’s scholarship on Romantic notions of na ...
Dash also argues, however, that this “cartographic impulse” is problematic because the Haitian space being mapped “had already b ...
worthwhile. Even the smallest of flowers takes on great significance when beloved by the poet. The sonnet entitled “La Fleur de ...
becomes a way of recording and preserving in writing the traces still remaining of the Haitian landscape. The interest in physic ...
other topic could better function to express national identity. Critics have highlighted how the rural parts of Haiti house the ...
specificities of the Haitian landscape, Haitian writers and journalists coined parts of Durand’s poetry as “Le Parnasse haïtien. ...
Images of island landscape and discussions about Parnassian poetry also evoke visions of the palm tree. More than just tropical ...
outbreak of a disease that affected coconut trees near Cap Haitian in the 1880s. The poet begins with describing this “mal incon ...
shifts to the heroes of the Revolution. Finally, the poet speaks to Haiti’s present-day citizens who must face Haiti’s current b ...
involvement in Haitian affairs, the poem urges Haitians to move beyond colonial hatred and expand what was originally an anti-sl ...
Solitude of the palm tree is hence better understood against the backdrop of Haiti’s monumental past. This poem then does not so ...
entered the world. After Adam and Eve’s fall in Eden, their only consolation was love for each other, so God introduced jealousy ...
I believe indeed that the small Haitian Republic, a shining buoy in the Antilles archipelago, will provide sufficient evidence i ...
notion of poetry which attests to a general humanity denied to those of the black race in much of nineteenth-century Western tho ...
existed. Is the decision to be French or Haitian up to the writer? Is national belonging determined by language, family history, ...
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