LA ROSE EN TOUS SES ÉTATS, FESTIFS ET INTEMPESTIFS: IMAGE POETIQUE, SYMBOLE POLITIQUE
LA ROSE EN TOUS SES ÉTATS, FESTIFS ET INTEMPESTIFS: IMAGE POETIQUE, SYMBOLE POLITIQUE

Summary/Abstract: The rose, used as a reason for lyric songs ("Mignonne, allons voir si larose"), had, as an emblem, the same fate as the cherry in the French song "Letemps des cerises". This symbol, used mainly by the lyric poets to express theepicurean pleasures of life, and spring holidays, along with their short duration,was recovered as a political emblem. The rose that adorns the lyrical verses andserves as a backdrop to ancient celebrations of "Rosalie", as to the moremodern, if somewhat antiquated, of the "rosieres", is also used as a mark ofrecognition of a party or of faction: the case for the two hostile families that aredelivered to the "Wars of the Roses” in 15th Century England, for the expressionof political struggles in Ireland in 20th Century in the drama Red Roses for Me bySean O'Casey, and the choice made by the French Socialist Party. This papertraces, through its range of uses, the multiple meanings of an image,transformed, as the case, in icon, symbol, allegory, symbol, mythème.

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