PROLOGUE.

A soft voice calls me back
To Pindusoriginal: "Pinde." A mountain range in Greece, traditionally considered the home of the Muses; here, it symbolizes the realm of poetry and artistic inspiration. which I had left;
And it is the voice of beauty:
Obedient, I return there for her.
Will my return be a happy one?
Of this mountain which deceives the eye,
The peak, already lost in the clouds,
Rises still from day to day.
Let us try. If poetry
Invents and lives on fiction,
It lives, above all, on action:
Away, then, with the new heresy The author likely refers to a contemporary literary movement that prioritized abstract thought over narrative "action.".
But I want fresh colors;
I want smiles and tears.
Laura'sLikely an allusion to the muse of the Italian poet Petrarch, used here to represent a sophisticated female guide or patroness. counsel guides me;
Even before mine, her quick intuition
Saw flowers within my subject.
More beautiful than my beautiful Isaureoriginal: "Isaure." A reference to Clémence Isaure, the legendary medieval patroness of the "Floral Games" (Jeux Floraux), a famous poetic competition in Toulouse.,