The Notion of Reality as the Basis of the Analogical Poetic Image: a Comparative Analysis of Ponge’s, Reverdy’s and Breton’s Poetics

Abstract

This article draws a comparative analysis between the different forms of poetic image created by Pierre Reverdy, Francis Ponge, and André Breton, given that the semantic implications of their own poetic expressions differed considerably from one another despite their belonging to the same historical-cultural period. Therefore, this article argues for the analogical imagination and the concept itself of reality as the driving forces of a poet’s rhetoric, on the basis that all linguistic representation ultimately implies a process of conceptualization of the world which determines the ontological nature of literary creation.