The Fluvial Ode in Friedrich Hölderlin and Maurice de Guérin
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Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) and Maurice de Guérin (1810-1839) were complete strangers to each other. Yet they expressed the sacred in a very similar way, using the image of the river. This fluvial figure plays a major role in the sentence and the structure of their poems, prompted by the antique spirit of the genus sublime. Both a deity and a life-giving reality, the river guides them towards the original source of life and language. It ultimately becomes an image of the poet himself, inspired by the gods and, carried by its pure stream, these odes tend to express what is beyond words.
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