A Bouquet Of Naked Rain Analysis

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As has been noted, in fiction the relationship between the ordinary and the marvellous is represented through the narration of enigmatic situations and mysterious events. The marvellous is found in ordinary situations, as strolling around a city, and it is always shocking. We can also appreciate in a way the conflict between the two images juxtaposed as it is usual in poetic texts. One of the images would be the ordinary situation and the other would be the image of the enigmatic event. This juxtaposition of images will create the convulsive beauty of Breton. Furthermore, the relationship of the marvellous and the ordinary in poetry is, some would say, purest than in prose. Surrealist poets use two images that are in conflict with a hidden true relationship. Breton quotes Reverdy to explain this surprising beauty, “The more the relationship between the two juxtaposed …show more content…

Although the images represent ordinary objects, the relationship between them has no logic at all which creates the marvellous. In the third verse the poet writes, “a bouquet of naked rain”. In this example, the poet is using two ordinary images, first the bouquet and then the rain; however there is no logic relationship between them. In particular, poets used surrealist techniques as the automatic writing that creates this kind of images. Despite it seems to us at first look that there is not a true relationship between both images, there is actually a marvellous one. However, maybe not even the author is aware of it, since those images come from his subconscious mind; there is not an ultimate definition of the relationship. Maybe the interpretation of these two images deals with the representation of natural life, since a bouquet of naked rains remind me of the dynamic life of the nature that never stops, as the rain will be never hold by the

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