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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.
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Jul 4, 2015 · Un poème futuriste qui mêle images modernes et religieuses, avions et oiseaux, Paris et ciel. Découvrez le texte intégral de Zone, une ode à la ville et à la vie, écrite par Apollinaire en 1913.
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The poem begins with the speaker setting off on his journey at the start of a new day. The initial language gives the city, Paris, an anthropomorphized control over itself. The Eiffel Tower is a shepherd and the bridge sheep. The narratorwalks through the streets of the town and as he travels he gets closer and closer to the side of life he has lit...
Lines 1-6
As stated previously, ‘Zone’begins at the start of a new day. It is “morning” and the “bridges are bleating,” the Eiffel Tower is acting as a “Shepherdess.” This strange image is not elucidated, but one can assume that the tower’s imposing shape and size is giving the speaker the impression that it is herding all the shapes below it. The speaker is referring to himself as “you” at this point in the piece and is telling his readers, and perhaps himself, that he is “fed up” with the past. He ga...
Lines 7-14
In the second section, the imageryonly gets more complex and confusing. The speaker references Christianity once again and speaks of “Pope Pius X” as the most “modern European.”He seems to respect the way in which the Pope is able, through the simplicity of worship, to craft a place in the world. ‘Zone’continues on, flashing through images that surround the speaker. These are sights that he is seeing, has seen, and objects he turns to for comfort. Instead of entering church, he reads “flyers...
Lines 15- 24
On the journey that the speaker is taking from one part of Paris to another, he notices a “clean” street that is as bright as the “sun’s clarion,” or trumpet. Throughout this landscape move the “laborers” and “stenographers.” They are people who are simply going about their lives. They follow the same routine day in and day out and the speaker finds great pleasure in this. It is unclear whether or not he truly wishes for this kind of life or just enjoys the “swank of that street.”
Guillaume Apollinairewas most likely born in Rome, Italy. His parentage is not clear. It is possible that his father was a military officer or a high ranking member of the Church. His youth was spent traveling throughout Europe where he was able to meet a number of interesting personalities and develop an interest in various fields of study. He eve...
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Découvrez le poème Zone de Guillaume Apollinaire, extrait du recueil Alcools (1913), qui annonce une poésie nouvelle et moderne. Suivez l'analyse linéaire du texte, qui met en avant la ville, la religion, le quotidien et la poésie.
Zone est un poème de Guillaume Apollinaire, paru dans son recueil Alcools. Bien qu'il soit le dernier à avoir été écrit, il ouvre ce recueil publié en 1913.
‘’Zone’’. (1913) poème de Guillaume APOLLINAIRE. figurant dans le recueil ‘’Alcools’’. On trouve ici : le texte. son analyse. Bonne lecture ! À la fin tu es las de ce monde ancien. Bergère ô tour Eiffel le troupeau des ponts bêle ce matin. Tu en as assez de vivre dans l'antiquité grecque et romaine.
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Dec 13, 2013 · Read David Lehman’s translation of “Zone,” the central poem in Apollinaire’s career. Apollinaire experimented with audacious techniques for generating verse. On occasion he would sit in a café and weave overheard phrases into the composition.
