Figure de force brûlante et farouche

Figure de force brûlante et farouche (FR) Image of Burning and Wild Force. Poulenc's setting (1937, Tel jour telle nuit #8) of a poem by Eluard. The words form the fourth section of a poem called »Intimes« (Intimacies) in Les Yeux fertiles (Fertile Eyes, 1936). One early manuscript of the poem has the phrase »Figure de proue brûlante et farouche« (Image of a burning, wild prow). Poulenc writes: »»Figure de force« is also a mélodie tremplin to make audible the quality of silence at the beginning…