Aproximación al poema Joan Miró de Paul Éluard

Abstract

Amongst the many artists mentioned in Éluard’s verse is Joan Miró, who has a whole poem to himself. The poem is contained in the volume Capitale de la douleur and bears Miro’s name as the title. Breton enthused about this book in the following terms: «Capitale de la douleur c’est paraît-il, un scandale pour certains si la pas­sion et l’inspiration se persuadent qu’elles n’ont besoin que d’elles-mêmes». A study of this poem shows how the poet identifies with two modes of artistic creation, that of painting and that of poetry, through the interplay between metaphor and metamorphosis.