Lirismo-narratividad. Reflexiones a partir del poema “Colloque sentimental” de Paul Verlaine

This essay explores the thin boundaries of genres in Paul Verlaine’s poem “Colloque sentimental”, where the theatrical, the lyrical, and the narrative coexist. Of these three terms, the lyrical is the most elusive, which beyond its musical substratum, would be related to the expressive side, the accent placed on the poetic subject, the extreme subjectivation and the tendency to self-representation, the varied world of explicit feelings, a singular atmosphere, something similar to a “soft” world, traversed by the exaltation of the “other”, and all the expressive consequences that these considerations have in poetry.