Verlaine’s “Sur Jules Claretie” is less a poem than a riddle – one whose answer is guessed at in the title, added by Verlaine’s various editors over the years. The key to unlocking this “riddle” lies in a counter-intuitive reading of the poem in meter 5-5, with an occasional stylistic value also plausible in Baudelaire and Corbière.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
