“Une Parole Totalement Intelligible”: Paul Claudel’s Cosmic Poetics

Key Points

• The study aims to explore Paul Claudel's concept of cosmic poetics and its philosophical foundations.
• Analyzes Claudel’s works, particularly the Five Great Odes.
• Utilizes Thomistic realism and Christian ontology as frameworks.
• Examines the rejection of modern reductionist perspectives in Claudel’s poetics.
• Claudel articulates a poetic word that acts as a conduit to the divine.
• His approach transforms the sensible world into a comprehensible and intelligible reality.
• Recognition of a rhythmic understanding that integrates being, knowing, and naming.