Bossi, Magali <br/><br/>
Minefields. The toponym in the haikus of the Great War 

 -  2022.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> In France, the First World War was an opportunity for certain poets to experiment with a new form, recently arrived in the West: the haiku. Brief and percussive, the haiku retranscribed the fulgurating effect of this unprecedented traumatic event. After the war, the Reims poet René Druart travelled to the devastated regions of northern France. His haikus describe destroyed landscapes and lost villages. Druart drew up a precise map of the regions he visited, thanks to the massive presence of place names. How do these place names enter the haikus? What effects do they have? What impact do they have on such a brief form, where the smallest word is essential? These are some of the questions that this analysis seeks to answer.