Stylistic approach to poetic enunciation in Symphonie musicale: pour une poévie de la Vie by Jean-Baptiste Fondjo

Abstract

Composed of four poems of varying length, Symphonie musicale: pour une poévie de la Vie is a collection by Jean-Baptiste Fondjo, published in 2022 by L’Harmattan editions in Paris. This poetic work, essentially lyrical, is defined as a hymn to life. This life, so dear to the poet, is celebrated from the generic scene of poévie, as evidenced by the title of the work. A portmanteau word forged from the morpheme “poé”, a truncation of the lexeme “poésie” and the term “vie”, poévie is a poetic art which aims to promote life, by mobilizing various writing processes, the most representative being deictics, suprasegmental marks and the metaphor. This strategy testifies to the subjectivity of the poet. These enunciative units give rise to stylistic analysis. The latter is defined, in fact, as a theory and a method of structural analysis which aims to decipher and interpret the linguistic resources implemented by a writer in his text. The interest of this study is to show how the tools of the linguistics of enunciation lend themselves to a profitable stylistic interpretation in the poetry of Jean-Baptiste Fondjo.