Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Charmes
Für wen es gedacht ist
You will enjoy it if you love poems about the mind, myth, the sea and the body, and if you like to hear verse read aloud and savor its images.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
What does a mind hear when it wakes, looks into a pool, or stands at noon above a sea of graves? Charms is a collection of poems by Paul Valéry, the French poet. It gives you a tree that refuses to speak, a youth in love with his reflection, a serpent in a garden, and a cemetery by the sea. The first poem, Dawn, shows a mind waking into thought.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1Poems that begin with a mind wakingFree
- 2Nature and myth give the mind a voice
- 3Narcissus turns love into a study of the self
- 4Short poems of desire, sleep and prophecy
- 5The sea and the serpent
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Poems that begin with a mind waking
Valéry opens the collection with Dawn, a poem about a mind coming out of sleep. The speaker rises, greets the ideas that worked in the dark like spiders, and then breaks their web to search for the sources of song in the senses.
The poem sets the pattern for the book. Thought and feeling are not enemies here, and each poem watches the mind at work on the world. Hope appears as a swimmer feeling the depth beneath her.
As you listen, notice how often the poems start from a moment of change, such as morning, evening or noon. Each one asks what the mind does when it meets light.
That’s 1 of 5 key points.
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Questions about Charmes
What is Charms by Paul Valéry about?
It is a collection of poems about the mind, beauty, desire, time and death. Its pieces use myth, nature and the sea, from Narcissus at his pool to the Marine Cemetery.
What is The Marine Cemetery about?
A speaker sits above a graveyard by the sea at noon and thinks about death, change and time. The poem ends with a rising wind that calls him back to life.
Who is Narcissus in Valéry's poem?
He is the youth of Greek myth who falls in love with his reflection. Valéry makes him a thinker, exploring self-love, the pool and the echo that answers him.
Is Charms easy to follow?
Its poems are short and full of clear images, such as a tree, a pool, a bee and a palm. Reading them aloud, one at a time, makes each picture easy to hold.
What is the Sketch of a Serpent?
It is a poem in which the serpent of Eden speaks for himself. He explains his scorn for creation and tempts Eve with persuasive words about knowledge.