Le mythe orphique comme initiation à la poésie : Orphée et Keats
(2018) Folia electronica classica — Vol. 36, n° (Juillet-décembre 2018), p. 1-16 (2018)
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- (en) Frequently used and reinterpreted, the myth of Orpheus seems to have never been considered as the story of an initiation to poetry. All interpretations of the myth assume that the young man with the lyre is already, from the beginning of the story, the king of poets. However, all the lives of real poets have proved that such a postulate was untenable: one is not born a poet, one becomes a poet. This is why, relying on the experience and poetic journey of the English Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821), this article seeks to bring new elements to the Orphic myth and thus to produce a different reading of the story. Seen from this angle, it appears that it is only at the end of his journey that Orpheus can indeed be considered as the archetype of the poet. This myth can thus be read as an initiation to poetry.
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Chiroux, A. (2018). Le mythe orphique comme initiation à la poésie : Orphée et Keats. Folia electronica classica, 36((Juillet-décembre 2018)), 1-16. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/267484 (Original work published 2018)