Choosing to incarnate the people in revolt in the figure of a blacksmith, Rimbaud returns the French Revolution to those who carried it out in the streets. In opposition to the powerful, Rimbaud’s “Forgeron” recreates the voice of the people, without censure or mediation: everyday orality and popular songs swarm the palace of the alexandrine in a discursive insurrection that is the stylistic equivalent of the storming of the Tuileries Palace.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
