Article: La nature comme moyen d’expression de l’ineffable : la Première Guerre mondiale chez quelques poètes roussillonnais (francophones et catalanophones)
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2026
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Miró, Estel Aguilar
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Cet article analyse comment la nature est utilisée comme vecteur poétique pour exprimer la mort dans la poésie de guerre des auteurs roussillonnais – francophones et catalanophones – confrontés à la Première Guerre mondiale. Face à la désolation, l’horreur des tranchées et de la captivité, des poètes comme Josep Sebastià Pons, Jeanne Marvig, Jean Amade ou encore Horaci Chauvet mobilisent les éléments naturels –faune, flore, cycles saisonniers, paysages – pour évoquer l’indicible, mais aussi pour nourrir un espoir de renaissance individuelle et collective. La nature devient tantôt miroir du désespoir et du chaos intérieur, tantôt source de résilience spirituelle. En parallèle, l’usage du catalan et l’évocation du paysage natal permettent de recréer un espace de refuge et de consolation, de mémoire et d’identité, face à la brutalité du conflit. Cette poésie, ancrée dans une perspective régionaliste, se distingue des avant-gardes contemporaines et revendique un lien fort entre langage, paysage et reconstruction. La nature devient ainsi le lieu d’une catharsis poétique, individuelle et collective, face aux traumatismes de la guerre.
Nature as a vehicle for expressing the ineffable: The First World War in the works of selected Roussillon poets (Francophone and Catalanophone). This article explores how nature is used as a poetic vehicle to express death in the war poetry of Roussillon authors — both French- and Catalan-speaking — confronted with the First World War. In the face of desolation, as well as the horrors of the trenches and captivity, poets such as Josep Sebastià Pons, Jeanne Marvig, Jean Amade, and Horaci Chauvet draw on natural elements — fauna, flora, seasonal cycles, landscapes — to evoke the unspeakable, while also nurturing a hope for both individual and collective rebirth. Nature becomes at times a mirror of despair and inner chaos, and at other times a source of spiritual resilience. Simultaneously, the use of the Catalan language and the evocation of the native landscape help recreate a space of refuge and consolation, of memory and identity, in response to the brutality of the conflict. Rooted in a regionalist perspective, this poetry stands apart from contemporary avant-gardes and asserts a strong connection between language, landscape, and reconstruction. Thus, nature becomes the site of poetic catharsis, both individual and collective, in the face of wartime trauma.
Nature as a vehicle for expressing the ineffable: The First World War in the works of selected Roussillon poets (Francophone and Catalanophone). This article explores how nature is used as a poetic vehicle to express death in the war poetry of Roussillon authors — both French- and Catalan-speaking — confronted with the First World War. In the face of desolation, as well as the horrors of the trenches and captivity, poets such as Josep Sebastià Pons, Jeanne Marvig, Jean Amade, and Horaci Chauvet draw on natural elements — fauna, flora, seasonal cycles, landscapes — to evoke the unspeakable, while also nurturing a hope for both individual and collective rebirth. Nature becomes at times a mirror of despair and inner chaos, and at other times a source of spiritual resilience. Simultaneously, the use of the Catalan language and the evocation of the native landscape help recreate a space of refuge and consolation, of memory and identity, in response to the brutality of the conflict. Rooted in a regionalist perspective, this poetry stands apart from contemporary avant-gardes and asserts a strong connection between language, landscape, and reconstruction. Thus, nature becomes the site of poetic catharsis, both individual and collective, in the face of wartime trauma.
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první světová válka (1914-1918), francouzská poezie, příroda, Roussillon (Francie)
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poésie de guerre, nature, Roussillon, identité, war poetry, nature, Roussillon, identity
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doi.org/10.15452/SR.2026.26.0002
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CC BY-NC 4.0
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Studia Romanistica 26(1), 2026, 9-22