Erik Satie's Poetry

Author: Dayan, Peter¹

Source: The Modern Language Review, Volume 103, Number 2, 1 April 2008 , pp. 409-423(15)

Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association

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Abstract:

This article is the first literary critical analysis of Satie's poetry. It starts from his Trois poèmes d'amour, whose verse form and musical setting place exaggerated emphasis on the `e muet' of feminine rhymes. The `e muet' and sounds connoted as feminine play an equally important role in Satie's `drame symphonique' Socrate: they suggest a symbolist prolongation of the voice beyond the point where its function is to make sense, as it fades into music or silence. Playing the conventions of verse against those of musical notation, Satie configures a poet whose problems of self-expression become those of poetry itself.

Keywords: Satie's poetry; Trois poèmes d'amour; verse form; e muet; Socrate; musical notation

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: University of Edinburgh

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