LOUIS ARAGON’UN ŞİİRİNDE DİRENİŞ RUHU VE PARİS

Abstract

The paper aims to refer to Louis Aragon’s poetic efforts to stand against fascism which, right from the beginning of the Second World War, threatened France and most of the European contries. With well-known contemporaries like Eluard, Mauriac and Tardieu Aragon composed ‘Poetry of Rebellion’ with freedom and existentialism at their core, for the social good. Thus, he published his works exalting ‘freedom and liberty’ as a voice of the people and a propaganda device. With the invasion of Paris this spirit of rebellion spread to the whole of the nation and Paris appeared in his compositions as the symbol of rebellion and resistance. For Aragon, Paris under German invasion is much more than a place carrying traces of his bitter sweet memories and his life with the love of his life Elsa. Without a free Paris “there is no happy love” for Aragon. Paris represents Elsa and vice versa; one without the other is meaningless