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The period of romantic poetry reached its peak in the 1840s, and the death of Victor Hugo in 1885 is often considered the end of the movement in poetry. [10] However, it was carried on by others, particularly Charles Baudelaire , Théophile Gautier , Gérard de Nerval , and Paul Verlaine until the end of the century.
Epic poems in French (1 C, 26 P) H. Poetry by Michel Houellebecq (2 P) French humorous poems (1 C, 1 P) M. Poetry by Stéphane Mallarm ...
The modern French language does not have a significant stress accent (as English does) or long and short syllables (as Latin does). This means that the French metric line is generally not determined by the number of beats, but by the number of syllables (see syllabic verse; in the Renaissance, there was a brief attempt to develop a French poetics based on long and short syllables [see "musique ...
Pages in category "Poems in French" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Ballade à la grosse Margot;
"Beau soir" ("Beautiful Evening") is set to a poem by Paul Bourget. The poem paints the picture of a beautiful evening where the rivers are turned rose-colored by the sunset and the wheat fields are moved by a warm breeze. Debussy uses a gently flowing triplet rhythm in the accompaniment, which contrasts the duplets that drive the light melody ...
Cligès (also Cligés) is a poem by the medieval French poet Chrétien de Troyes, dating from around 1176. It is the second of his five Arthurian romances; Erec and Enide, Cligès, Yvain, Lancelot and Perceval. The poem tells the story of the knight Cligès and his love for his uncle's wife, Fenice.
Others have read the poem as indicating that Tristan has left a longer message, perhaps in lines 77–78, or the entirety of lines 61–78. [10] In such a case the message may have been transcribed in notches on the branch, perhaps in the ogham alphabet, or in a fashion similar to the tally stick .