Prière d’Arthur Rimbaud Les aléas de l’allégorie animale dans « Les Corbeaux »

This article engages with the theological side of “Les Corbeaux”. Often taken as social satire, we contend that the poem also lends itself to a different reading of animal allegory in which what is at stake is above all prayer as form of code and the Christian motif of the incarnation. “Les Corbeaux” thus asks us as readers to attend to the tense symbolic relationship that poetry maintains with the religious.