Abstract
Yves Bonnefoy, Honorary Professor at the Collège de France, has taken a more optimistic stance, at least on the surface ("Why don't some books age?"). For him, as we know, poetry, which goes directly from words to experience, is an antidote to the drying abstraction of the concept. Under concepts, sound: form restores dignity to words. The truth is, all books age, but poetry can benefit from this. Aging is in itself so closely linked to what we experience and live, that its experience is the best defense against the concept. The archaeology of the text revives the atom of poetry that was buried in it. Based on Petrarch's Canzoniere, Nerval'sChimères and the particular form of Shakespeare's sonnets, this paper concluded with a brilliant and profound analysis of the sonnet, contrasting the symmetry of the quatrains with the temporality of the tercets.
