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CHANT JOYEUXComme des prairies où poussent mille milliers de fleurs / Brille ton sourire, Corinne, ma joyeuse maîtresse, / Emblème de la beauté, blason de la jeunesse

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Gorille, bonobo et magotPour faire sourire ma muse / Malgré elle je fais le pitre : / Je me fais animal en extinction

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Andrew Marvell ~ first, the blah blah critique, the placementThe masculine assault upon the reluctance of the “coy” woman lies at the heart of Marvell’s best-known love poem—perhaps the most famous “persuasion to love” or carpe diem poem in English—”To his Coy Mistress.” Everything we know about Marvell’s poetry should warn us to beware of taking its exhortation to carnality at face value. Critics from T. S. Eliot on took note of the poem’s “logical” structure, but then it began to be noticed that the conditional syllogism in that structure is invalid—a textbook case of affirming the consequent or the fallacy of the converse. Has Marvell made an error? Or does he attribute an error to the speaking persona of the poem? Or is the fallacy part of the sophistry that a seducer uses on an ingenuous young woman? Or is it a supersubtle compliment to a woman expected to recognize and laugh at the fallacy? These alternatives must be judged in the light of the abrupt shifts in tone among the three verse paragraphs. In the opening lines the seducer assumes a pose of disdainful insouciance with his extravagant parody of the Petrarchan blason: / An hundred years should go to praise / Thine Eyes, and on thy Forehead Gaze.

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Le château du SouvenirLa main au front, le pied dans l'âtre, / Je songe et cherche à revenir, / Par delà le passé grisâtre,

Théophile Gautier84

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