Abstract
The article attempts to interpret the imaginary world of Saint-John Perse as represented in his early poems. It focuses on the close reading of poems which were later to form the thematic cycles of Éloges.
Further analysis considers Anabasis and the birth of a thinker (the triple face of the Stranger, the Poet and the Leader). It discusses various critical approaches to Saint-John Perse's poetry and concludes that one way to interpret it might be a recourse to a modified conceptualization of energy as found in Bergson.