Project Gutenberg 2014-06-05 Public domain in the USA. 705 Gautier, Théophile 1811 1872 Gaultier, Theophile Gautier, Theophile Gautier, Pierre-Jules-Théophile Poésies Complètes - Tome 2 Produced by Clarity, Hélène de Mink, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) "Poésies Complètes - Tome 2" by Théophile Gautier is a collection of poetry written in the late 19th century. This volume explores themes of love, beauty, mortality, and the human condition through evocative language and imagery. The poems reflect the author's romantic sensibilities and delve into the complexities of life and death, often drawing on nature and philosophical reflections. The opening of the volume introduces a poignant exploration of death through rich imagery and metaphors. It begins with a metaphorical structure likening the creation of poetry to the construction of tombs, suggesting that each poem serves as a monument to the buried emotions and ideas within the poet's soul. Specifically, it describes the scene in a cemetery where people mourn and honor their deceased loved ones, contrasting this with the poet's meditation on forgotten graves and the longing for remembrance. As the poet wanders through the graveyard, a sense of profound sadness and contemplation emerges, questioning the nature of existence and the silence of the departed, setting a hauntingly reflective tone for the poems that follow. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/45886/45886-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 72.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. fr French poetry -- 19th century PQ Text FR Poésie Category: Poetry Category: French Literature 464916 2025-09-18T13:26:16.825613 text/html 442021 2024-10-24T07:45:44 text/html 216399 2025-09-18T13:26:29.831589 application/epub+zip 217999 2025-09-18T13:26:19.134717 application/epub+zip 217999 2025-09-18T13:26:17.889664 application/epub+zip 498566 2025-09-18T13:26:38.142602 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 403935 2025-09-18T13:26:28.342568 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 404062 2022-09-20T21:08:10.365115 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 332617 2025-09-18T13:26:14.803637 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 312597 2024-10-24T07:45:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16945 2025-09-18T13:26:38.307511 application/rdf+xml 5236 2025-09-18T13:26:18.046645 image/jpeg 1386 2025-09-18T13:26:17.970626 image/jpeg 201573 2025-09-18T13:26:16.858654 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia