Brain Pain discussion

This topic covers chapter 2, The Poetics of Wings, p. 65 - 89

"La poétique des ailes" continues on the same train as the previous chapter, but with a particular focus on the images of birds.

He references a couple of poems by Victor Hugo and, oddly enough, a now almost forgotten naturalist, Alphonse Toussenel (a pretty disreputable fellow, who is mostly remembered, if at all, for his antisemitic lampoons). Indeed, the authors Bachelard references are sometimes surprising, from under the counter, but, very often, he refers to English-speaking poets (not sure if Bachelard read them in the original text or in a translation). In the previous chapter, it was Percy Shelley, here it's William Blake, and Shelley again: the most beautiful part is when he discusses the expression of bodyless chanting in Shelley's "To a Skylark".

Easier to follow Bachelard in this chapter. The section on the lark as an invisible entity whose song is a kind of manifestation of god/existence/the universe... Now I need to find some recordings of the lark song to understand its place in poetry

Also inspired to look at Blake, although I'm not sure where to begin.