Interview 4 - Music

Aragon's Poetry Is Diverse And Varied. He Favoured Equally Poetic Prose And Fixed-Form Verse To Which He Brought A Renewed Sensibility. After A Very Free Early Period Marked By Surrealism And Its Subversive Language Aragon Returned To More Classical Forms Measured Verse Rhyme Even . He Felt That This Was More In Keeping With The National Emergency During World War II. After The War The Political Side Of His Poetry Gave Way More And More To Lyricism For Its Own Sake. He Never Went Back On That Embrace Of Classicism. He Did However Integrate A Certain Formal Freedom With It Sometimes Recalling The Surrealism Of His Early Days.
Countless Poems By Aragon Have Been Set To Music And Become Popular As Songs.
As A Novelist He Encompasses The Whole Ethos Of The Twentieth Century Surrealist Novel Socialist Realism Realism Nouveau Roman. Indeed He Was One Of The Founding Personalities Of The Novel Of His Time.
In 2010 La Poste French Post Office Issued 3 Stamps Honoring Louis Aragon. read less