Analyse du poème 'Barbara' de Jacques Prévert : champ lexical de la géographie et de l'histoire, destruction et mort
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Jacques Prévert, poème, Brest, Seconde Guerre mondiale, destruction, mort, pluie, bombardements alliés
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Dans ce poème, Jacques Prévert décrit la destruction de la ville de Brest pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et l'impact de la guerre sur les habitants de la ville. Le poète utilise la métaphore de la pluie pour représenter les bombardements alliés qui ont ravagé la ville et causé des centaines de morts.
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[...] Barbara and the man are unknown to the poet ('Even if I don't know them' at verse 28). Nevertheless, he feels affection for these people say you to all those I love' at verse 24) and testifies a certain familiarity towards Barbara, since he addresses her in the familiar form. The use of the lexical field of joy ('happiness', 'euphoric', 'radiant', 'smiling') testifies to the fact that it is a happy moment for the poet, who seems to feel a certain tenderness for this couple. [...]
[...] This poem by Jacques Prévert illustrates several functions of poetry. On the one hand, it serves to to express the poet's feelings. These feelings are also the love and compassion that the poet feels for the city of Brest and its inhabitants, as well as the anger and indignation he feels towards the war and the damage it causes. In this sense, this poem is elegiac, as it expresses Prévert's pain. On the other hand, this poem serves to to denounce the barbarity of war and the suffering it causes. [...]
[...] The two dominant lexical fields in the text are anaphora and metaphor. On the one hand, Prévert uses anaphora throughout the first part of the poem (up to line 37). He begins most of his sentences with the same words or expression ('Remember', 'It was raining', 'And + pronoun', The repetition of these sentence starters gives an impression of order, routine, which is interrupted when war is evoked (line 38). On the other hand, the metaphor is used throughout the text. [...]
[...] 5 essential and related information about the text: - Prévert was politically engaged throughout his life. He was part of the October group, a theater troupe that performed in factories on strike in the 1930s. - Jacques Prévert helped Jewish artists (Joseph Kosma and Alexandre Trauner) to hide during World War II. - Jacques Prévert loved Brest, where he often went with his friend Yves Tanguy, who owned a house not far from Brest. - Brest was under German occupation between June and September 18, 1944. [...]
[...] The author : Jacques Prévert (1900-1977) is one of the most famous French poets of the 20th century. He was born on February in Neuilly-sur-Seine to a father who was a man of letters (dramatic and film critic) and a mother who passed on to him a love of reading. Having often been a truant, Jacques Prévert dropped out of school at the age of 15. His military service allowed him to meet artists and surrealist authors such as Yves Tanguy, then André Breton and Louis Aragon, with whom he collaborated. [...]
