Aproximación al poema

Abstract

Amongst the many artists mentioned in Éluard’s verse is Joan Miró, who has a whole poem to himself. The poem is con-tained in the volume Capitale de la douleur and bears Miro’s name as the title. Breton enthused about this book in the following terms: «Capitale de la douleur c’est paraît-il, un scandale pour certains si la passion et l’inspiration se persuadent qu’elles n’ont besoin que d’elles-mêmes». A study of this poem shows how the poet identifies with two modes of artistic creation, that of painting and that of poetry, through the interplay between metaphor and metamor-phosis.

Keywords

• surrealism
• painting
• poetry
• creation
• sign
• metamorphosis