Dişileşen Manzara ve Tek Heceli Ritim

Abstract

L’Invitation au Voyage is part of the Marie Daubrun cycle. The poem comprises three couplets of 12 lines each separated by a refrain of two lines. What makes the poem original is the constant repetition of heptasyllables preceded by pentasyllables. Although the poet doesn’t name the country that he speaks of, a prose form of the same poem explains that the exotic country is Holland. Baudelaire is inspired by this attractive place as by the paintings of Dutch painters. The beauty and richness of the landscapes and the spaces are dazzling. Andre Gide rightly said that each word of the refrain could serve as a title of a book on aesthetics. While the first couplet evokes the woman-landscape relationship in a dream land where lovers aspire to a communal life, the second couplet reveals, in dazzling solemnity, interiors decorated with furniture, metals, mirrors, flowers and rare silver that are part of a silent symphony. As for the third couplet, it completes this refined and voluptuous intimism by evoking canals and vessels, qui viennent du bout des mondes et des soleils couchants, (that come from the ends of worlds and setting suns), signs of this ‘douce langue natale’ (sweet native language) of the soul that reflects the chaude (hot) and the sweet lumière (light) of the beautiful actress.