Abstract EN:

Le mepris de la vie et consolation contre la mort by j. B. Chassignet was published in 1954 in besancon. Our analysis will consist in finding the constituent elements of this poetic speech. The title invitee us to look for the first of these elements in the rhetorical pattern and the ensuing literary structures. A poetry of "the sedond person" is then revealed when the conative function is privileged and rests on a real oratorical construction of the speech. Its metrificaftion and insertion in the sonnet form entitle us to consider these to be the second constituent element of the poetic matter. Elocutionary structures happen to complicate the productive process. The poetic function always appears to be submitted to the convincing aims. The sonnet with its formal resources, enables the poet to emphasize the message. The imagery clearly acts as an illustration of his ideas. Finally, the third main line of our study hinges on a determining of the aesthetics of le mepris. . . By an analysis of the models (montaigne, juste-lipse, du plessis-mornay, seneca whom the above mentioned du plessis translated), of the chassignet's stylistics and his vision of the world. He is baroque by his ostentatius illustrative eagerness to teach the other. But this weapon is used to fight for truth and actually says sonething different. The implicit prevail ever the official speach. The effort of persuasion becomes per verted. The statement keeps repeating over and over in a monomaniac way and the text becomes a collection of isolated elements. . .