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Apollinaire's works, from his visual poems to pornographic novels like Les onze mille verges ( The Debauched Hospodar), as well as his flamboyant personality, present numerous examples of those artistic traits which led the Surrealists and other literary experimentalists to claim him as one of their predecessors. Critics agree that Apollinaire ...
Apollinaire's poetry was characterized by its experimental use of language, disregard for traditional poetic forms, and its engagement with the modern world. He was a pioneer of visual poetry , using typography and other visual elements to create a new kind of poetic experience.
Une sélection de poèmes écrits par Guillaume Apollinaire, célèbre poète et écrivain français né à Rome en 1880 et mort en 1918.
He wrote poems without punctuation, in his attempt to be resolutely modern in both form and subject. [ 2 ] Apollinaire wrote one of the earliest Surrealist literary works, the play The Breasts of Tiresias (1917), which became the basis for Francis Poulenc 's 1947 opera Les mamelles de Tirésias.
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- The Mirabeau Bridge
- Twilight
- Clotilde
- The White Snow
- The Farewell
- Acrobats
- The Bells
- The Gypsy
(Alcools: Le Pont Mirabeau) Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine And our amours Shall I remember it again Joy always followed after Pain Comes the night sounds the hour The days go by I endure Hand in hand rest face to face While underneath The bridge of our arms there races So weary a wave of eternal gazes Comes the night sounds the hour The days go...
(Alcools: Crépuscule) Brushedby the shadows of the dead On the grass where day expires Columbine strips bare admires her body in the pond instead A charlatan of twilight formed Boasts of the tricks to be performed The sky without a stain unmarred Is studded with the milk-white stars From the boards pale Harlequin First salutes the spectators Sorcer...
(Alcools: Clotilde) Theanemone and flower that weeps have grown in the garden plain where Melancholy sleeps between Amor and Disdain There our shadows linger too that the midnight will disperse the sun that makes them dark to view will with them in dark immerse The deities of living dew Let their hair flow down entire It must be that you pursue Tha...
(Alcools: La blanche neige) Theangels the angels in the sky One’s dressed as an officer One’s dressed as a chef today And the others sing Fine sky-coloured officer Sweet Spring when Christmas is long gone Will deck you with a lovely sun A lovely sun The chef plucks geese Ah! Snowfalls hiss Fall and how I miss My beloved in my arms
(Alcools: L’Adieu) I’ve gathered this sprig of heather Autumn is dead you will remember On earth we’ll see no more of each other Fragrance of time sprig of heather Remember I wait for you forever
(Alcools:Saltimbanques) Thestrollers in the plain walk the length of gardens before the doors of grey inns through villages without churches And the children gone before The others follow dreaming Each fruit tree resigns itself When they signal from afar They have burdens round or square drums and golden tambourines Apes and bears wise animals gath...
(Alcools: Les Cloches) Mygipsy beau my lover Hear the bells above us We loved passionately Thinking none could see us But we so badly hidden All the bells in their song Saw from heights of heaven And told it everyone Tomorrow Cyprien Henry Marie Ursule Catherine The baker’s wife her husband and Gertrude that’s my cousin Will smile when I go by them...
(Alcools: La tzigane) Thegypsy knew in advance Our two lives star-crossed by night We said farewell to her and then from that deep well Hope began Love heavy a performing bear Danced upright when we wanted And the blue bird lost his plumes And the beggars lost their Ave We knew quite well that we were damned But hope of love in the street Made us t...
Apollinaire was an important part of several avant-garde movements in French literature and art at the start of the twentieth century. His influences include the Symbolist poets Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Jules Laforgue, and Tristan Corbière.
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Zone. Guillaume Apollinaire. 1880 –. 1918. At last you’re tired of this elderly world. Shepherdess O Eiffel Tower this morning the bridges are bleating. You’re fed up living with antiquity. Even the automobiles are antiques. Religion alone remains entirely new religion.