Andre Breton & Paul Eluard – Surrealist Poem

16 thoughts on “Andre Breton & Paul Eluard – Surrealist Poem”

1. hi, Could you please tell me what is the origin of the pic at 1:46 ? The woman with the umbrella?Thanks for your post !

2. So good

3. Sweet

4. And thank you, BoldGoldOne!

5. I think Shakespeare did. I know that in Hamlet, the King doubts how mad his nephew-son really is when he says, "though this be madness, yet there is method in it." There certainly seems some kind of method in the surrealist verse of Breton and Eluard, even if the method is only, as some characterize it, automatic writing as revelatory of subconscious ideas and images.

6. Also in Hamlet, Queen Gertrude says Ophelia's mad ravings seem to contain some "sense", and listeners are moved to try to figure it out. Gertrude says: "She speaks … things in doubt, that carry but half sense: her speech is nothing, yet the unshaped use of it doth move the hearers to collection; they aim at it, and botch [mend] the words up fit to their own thoughts; which, as her winks, and nods, and gestures yield them, indeed would make one think there might be thought."

7. I feel I would enjoy this much more on paper.

8. @dadasopher The raving of a mad person can have a deeper wisdom within them, Shakespeare wrote that?

9. What's the name of this poem?

10. @witek205 Thank you!

11. Good job! Thanks 🙂

12. more than just amusing or nonsense it is a poem on the irrationality of the expression and therefore the world, this simply states, "Brilliantly" how some images cxan capture you without, at first glance, making sense, the sense of it all is literally on every image, the sense of the unknown.

13. i'm glad you liked the sound and the scenes, because i really wanted them to work, since the poetry, while interesting, is very nearly nonsense – though, as is sometimes said in shakespeare, the ravings of a mad person can have a deeper wisdom hiding in them – and even if the ravings are not wise, they may be amusing. i find this poem amusing.

14. interestingly, one of the beginnings of surrealism came when a man was trying to write a poem (or draw a picture, i don't remember), didn't like it, then tore up the paper, and when it fell on the ground the image or word-order hit him as perfect. "chance as an aesthetic principle", someone called it.

15. Nice images

16. thank you very much for your comments. you really do "get" what is important in this piece for me. as for what the words might mean, since it's a surrealist poem, it could mean nothing rational at all!

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