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How social networks rejuvenate poetry

2023-01-08T07:18:25.116Z


DECRYPTION - Instagram dusts off poetry, especially with a young audience. How to explain this success which continues to contradict itself?


We thought poetry was relegated to the bottom of the drawers of our childhood.

But it is enough to evoke his name to remind us of the verses of Jacques Prévert, those of Victor Hugo or even Charles Baudelaire.

Who has forgotten the melancholic musicality

of Paul Verlaine 's

"long sobs from the violins of autumn" ?

Or the moving poem

"Tomorrow at dawn"

by Victor Hugo?

The harmony of words has the gift of moving us.

Some have understood this well and have also decided to dust off this art which is too often neglected and yet considered by the painter Friedrich as

“the highest and purest manifestation of literary creation”

.

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This is how, in recent years, we have witnessed an irruption of poetry on social networks.

It continues to conquer the virtual universe.

On Instagram indeed, we note the hashtags #instapoésie #poesie #poesiefrancaise #frenchpoetry or #instapoet.

Some accounts relay the writings of forgotten poets, others share a poem known by…

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Source: lefigaro

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