The Azure (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Stéphane Mallarmé
- First Published: 1886
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Nature, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, Death or dying, Creative process, Fog, Sun, Sleep, Sky
The Poem
“The Azure,” a dramatic lyric poem that consists of nine quatrains and contains thirty-six lines in the original French, utilizes a melodic rhyme scheme that is characteristic of the French Symbolist school of poetry.
The poem reflects on the blue sky, a typically Symbolist aspect of nature, which the poet interfuses with his creative personality; thus art, nature, and the poet merge, and what transpires is a state of poetic meditation of thought, mood, and creativity.
The poem merges the idea of the infinite azure with creativity to develop an...
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