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L'Ile et le voyage: petite odyssée d'un poète lointain

Chapter 81: SEPTIÈME CHANT DANS L’ILE ENCHANTEE
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Lyrical poems depict tropical islands and seafaring voyages through vivid sensory detail, celebrating palms, reefs, dawns and moonlit nights. The speaker moves between nostalgia for a distant shore and the exhilaration of travel, attentive to winds, birds, waves, and human intimacies conveyed by letters and memory. Recurring themes include solitude, longing, and the interplay of exotic landscape and inner reverie, with short lyric scenes—incantations, invitations, and elegiac observations—united by a tone alternating between tenderness and contemplative yearning.

SEPTIÈME CHANT
DANS L’ILE ENCHANTEE

Raise the light, my page, that I may see her.
Thou art come at last then, haughty Queen !
Long I’ve waited, long I’ve fought my fever ;
Late thou comest, cruel thou hast been.

(Tristan and Iseult)

Matthew Arnold.

Je fais souvent ce rêve étrange et pénétrant…

Verlaine.