Le lac

by Alphonse de Lamartine

Le Lac est le dixième poème du recueil de 24 poésies nommé Les Méditations poétiques de Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) publié en 1820. La poétique de ce poème comme de l'ensemble du recueil des méditations est classique, des quatrains d'alexandrins coupés à l'hémistiche donnant une harmonie, un équilibre lent propice à la description des sentiments de l'auteur. Le Lac est considéré, aujourd’hui encore, comme le fleuron de la poésie romantique. Ce poème fut inspiré à Lamartine par la liaison amoureuse qu’il eut en 1816-1817 avec Julie Charles, une femme mariée atteinte d’un mal incurable qui l’emporta en 1817. Lamartine revient seul revoir les lieux qu'il a visités autrefois avec elle. Le Lac de Lamartine est devenu le poème immortel de l'inquiétude devant le destin, de l'élan vers le bonheur et de l'amour éphémère qui aspire à L'Éternité.

Genres: France, Poetry, French Literature

3 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 1820

About the author

French romantic poet Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine served briefly as minister of foreign affairs in 1848.

This instrumental writer and politician in the foundation of the second Republic and the continuation of the Tricolore as the flag of France.
Les Méditations Poétiques , a masterpiece in 1820, made his entrance into the field, and he awoke famous. He was made a knight of the Legion of Honour in 1825. He worked for the embassy in Italy from 1825 to 1828. In 1829, he was elected a member of the Académie française. He was elected a deputy in 1833. He in the course of making the journey in royal luxury to the countries lost his only daughter and immediately afterward in 1835 published the "Voyage en Orient", a brilliant and bold account. He then confined to prose.
He published volumes on the most varied subjects (history, criticism, personal confidences, literary conversations) especially during the Empire, when, having retired to private life as the prey of his creditors, he condemned to "literary hard-labor in order to exist and pay his debts". Lamartine ended his life in poverty, publishing monthly installments of the Cours familier de littérature for support. He died in Paris in 1869.

Frédéric Mistral published his long Mirèio; the following praise of Alphonse de Lamartine in the fortieth edition of his periodical Cours familier de littérature in part duly caused his fame, and he later won Nobel Prize. People most revere Mistral among writers in modern Occitan literature.

Charles-Julien Lioult de Chênedollé worked on similar innovations at the same time), and Paul Verlaine and the Symbolists acknowledged his important influence.

Reviews

[moi, k.y.a.]

ikinci okuma // NİYET ETTİM ŞİİR ANALİZİ YAZMAYA!
beni tanıyan herkesin çok iyi bildiği bir şey var ki o da şiir insanı olmadığım. sayfalarca düz yazı okuyup üzerine saatlerce konuşabilirim ancak konu şiire geldiği anda dut yemiş bülbüle dönüyorum. finale kadar da bir dersimizi sadece şiir üzerinden işleyeceğimizi ve edebi hayattaki geleceğimi düşününce konuya el atmaya karar verdim. ders notlarımı okudum, hocamın söyledikleri aklımın bir köşesinde ama artık işe kişisel olarak dahil olmam lazım. bu sebeple deneme tahtası olarak bu şiiri kullanacağım. birazdan aşağıya becerebilirsem şiir analizi gelecek.

birinci okuma // bu fani yüreğim bu dönem fazlaca şiire maruz kalıyor; vizeler yüzünden yorumların biriktirinin/birikmeye başlayacağının farkındayım ama hepsini gireceğim gerçekten 😢

[Andjela · Rating 5 out of 5]

À mon avis un des meilleurs poèmes du recueil de Lamartine. Après quelques années de lecture, quand je l'ai analysé et lu au collège, j'ai appris qu'il est autobiographique et qu'il montre comment nos poètes canalisent leur douleur et leurs émotions, et Lamartine en était un maître.

[Joe Pfeiler · Rating 4 out of 5]

A romantic work of longing for a lost loved one.

[Toon Pepermans · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5/5