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[...] The window allows us to see the other, which is essential to poetic creation. Subsequently, the poet transfigures this encounter through poetry, transforming reality intolegend». The poetic work therefore uses reality as a source of inspiration, because the poet creates an imaginary life from what he has seen from his window, and then surpasses it subsequently. B. The Importance of Compassion The poetic creation, if it needs others to exist, also needs the poet's compassion. It is thanks to compassion that he can identify with others. [...]
[...] In fact, it allows the poet to link to the world, and the poet to himself, through introspection. It allows to discover heterogeneous elements:as many things». The game of repetitionsee life, dream life, suffer life» testifies to this multiplicity of access that the window allows. Thanks to it, the poet has access to all the realities of existence: life, the dream, pain. II. A poetic art The window is therefore a symbolic object that serves the poet here to describe his poetic creation. And, in this sense, we can read this poem as a poetic art. [...]
[...] Through his window, the poet looks at both the city and his interiority. The poem then becomes itself a window, allowing one to see outside and within. From then on, in what way can this poem serve poetic art? After explaining the importance of the window as a place of discovery, we will see in what way the window can be considered as the symbol of creation and introspection, or of a poetic art proper to the poet. I. The window, a frame through which one looks and discovers The window is a frame through which the poet looks at the world, and discovers himself. [...]
[...] The experience described then has a universal character because it generalizes, from which the poet is absent, or at least discreet. But, subsequently, the poetic I appears from the second stanza: the poet becomes involved, and the experience is no longer so universal as personal, it is the poet's subjective experience that is described here. We start from the universal to arrive at the singular, at what is proper to the poet. However, this game between the universal and the singular is found elsewhere. [...]
[...] And this poetic art does not come from his intellect but from his imagination and sensitivity, as well as from his compassion. The poet's gaze is turned towards the outside, but also towards his own interiority. Thus, the window allows the poet to develop a reflection on his poetic art. Daydreaming, full of emotion, allows for meditation on poetry and existence. The ordinary spectacle of everyday life and the urban allows for contemplation and emotion: only the poet knows how to see, under the ordinary appearance of everyday life, the hidden truth and beauty of life. [...]
