Poetry of the Resistance and study of its topicality

The commitment and the action constitute a principle for a majority of the literature all along the twentieth century. Obviously these themes disappeared gradually from the french literary scene if not from western literature. Yet as an impassioned word, the committed poetry of the Resistance during the war years have impressed a good many people. A variety of research has been done on the poets of this period, but its topicality and the beauty of such poems, at least for other regions, ask for a new consideration. In this paper we try to see the pragmatic side of such poetic text, studying briefly a number of poets of the forties génération. So we discuss successively the poetry and its function, the Resistance and the poets, and finally the particularities of the resistance poems.