La Jeune Parque

Name: La Jeune Parque
Author: Paul Valery

by Paul Valery

Complex lyric poem depicting a young woman's consciousness and self-awareness

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Paul Valery

French symbolist poet and polymath whose La Jeune Parque and Le Cimetiere Marin are among the most technically accomplished poems in the French language. After a twenty-year silence he returned to poetry with a new rigor.

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