The Autumn songs (Toward figures of time in the poetry of the 19th century)

Abstract

The paper deals with some reflection modes concerning time, as well as its formation or figuration. Through the creation of several poets (A. de Lamartine, Ch.

Baudelaire, J. Vrchlický, P.

Verlaine) it analyses and compares their poetics of saisons, especially the represented meanings of autumn and of its manifestations and phenomena

Keywords

• Time in poetry
• seasons
• theme of autumn
• 19th century poetry