![]() ![]() Her portrayal in the poem is built upon oppositions and antitheses: bras d’un grand époux / tombeau vide ( arms of a great husband / empty tomb), la main du superbe Pyrrhus / vil bétail ( hand of the superbe Pyrrhus / vile cattle). She is referred to in a number of works, in the Iliad, the Aeneid, or in Jean Racine‘s play Andromaque. Andromache symbolizes the desolate widow, the mourning mother. Later she married Helenus, without ever forgetting Hector. Her son Astyanax was killed by the Greeks. Study The characters Andromache Īndromache, married to Hector -a hero killed by Achilles during the Trojan War- after the fall of Troy becomes the captive of Pyrrhus (also called Neoptolemus), a son of Achilles, who has made her his concubine. Its crossed rhyme scheme alternates male and female endings. It is made up of two parts: seven quatrains followed by six quatrains in alexandrines. The Swan is also the only poem of this section to feature a titular non-human protagonist. It is the second poem of the section named after one of its characters. It is the fourth poem of the section "Tableaux Parisiens", and the first in a series of three poems dedicated to Victor Hugo. Parisian scenes) of Les Fleurs du mal ( transl. ![]() The Swan) is a poem by Baudelaire published in the section " Tableaux Parisiens" ( transl. Recording in French by Vincent Planchon for Audiocité. ![]()
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