„Soleils couchants“ –Verlaines Neuentwurf des Melancholiegedicht als musikalische Miniatur

Résumé

Paul Verlaine’s “Soleils couchants” (from Poèmes saturniens) is a pioneering work that unveils a lyrical paradigm shift. While the author draws on traditional literary models (especially Hugo and Baudelaire), he simultaneously transcends them by boldly reworking the genre of melancholy poetry. This distancing is particularly evident in Verlaine’s departure from a logically structured discourse on melancholy: rather than being the subject of profound reflection, melancholy emerges as an
indeterminate, ineffable état d’âme that eludes conventional language and is conveyed primarily through the poem’s emancipated lyrical musicality.