About “L’heure présente”

Abstract

The aim of this article is to read the poem L’Heure présente by Yves Bonnefoy in a general way as an attempt to reveal the central motives that guide all his poetry, and, in particular, to outline the dramatic disposition of the poem from the point of view of its marks of enunciation, as well as the modalities that give way to the manifestation of light in it. In this regard, particular attention will be given to the third part of this long didactic poem in order to demonstrate the ways by which the lyric search concerning the truth that emerges there is only achieved by its own movement.