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Sonnet VII – To the Eiffel Tower

Poetry is a very old literary genre, usually written in verse but which allows
also prose, which prioritizes the expressiveness of form. Thus, during the 20th century, poetry
became interested in the surreal world encompassing all processes of creation and expression.
Jacques Roubaud, modern poet and mathematician, wrote the poem 'Sonnet VII - To the Eiffel Tower'
The shape of a city changes faster, alas, than the hearts of humans.
1998. In this poem, the form is that of a sonnet, as indicated in the title of the poem itself, we
let's also find crossed rhymes, enclosed rhymes, and continuous rhymes.
We can then wonder how the poet shows the humanity of the Eiffel Tower in this
poem. To answer this question, we will show the members of the body in relation to the tower.
Eiffel and prostitution, then we will discuss the perspective of this poem.

At first reading, we can immediately identify the different words that indicate a
part of the body, which will represent the Eiffel Tower in this poem. We find in this poem
the parts of the body like 'eye' from verse 4, personification, it was as if the Eiffel Tower was a
person. This eye will represent the open space between the floors in the Eiffel Tower. In the text it
is written 'crab eye', the author might be referring to the eye in the Eiffel Tower is like that
of a crab. This could mean that the Eiffel Tower is a crab, because their structure is a quality of skin
is high. It’s like the base of the Eiffel Tower, which will support all the floors, it's the same for
the crab that has limbs that will support its entire shell. Likewise, it will make a link with the
"legs" of verse 9, personification, the Eiffel Tower now has legs like the four pillars
made of metal that rests on the foundation. There its legs are spread, and "passes the thick crowd"
From that, we know that the crowd consists of tourists who come to visit the Eiffel Tower. But if we investigate
more in the world of society, this will rather lead us towards prostitution. The poet wants to say
that the Eiffel Tower is like prostitution because every day, it has its legs spread and some
millions of tourists pass through there every year, either above or even inside the tower. Moreover, we
we find in verse 10 'your buttocks', from which we always found personification.
about prostitution in this case. Which is then followed by 'there are children here' in verse 11 that
show that the Eiffel Tower is of prostitution and it is not afraid to show in front of children. The
buttocks is a very asexual part in society, so as the poet relates this part of the body to
the Eiffel Tower, it's that she has a part of her that catches the attention of tourists. Finally we are
at the level of the "foot" of verse 14, another personification where we show that at the foot of
the Eiffel Tower, we have groups of people understood, those people are prostitutes.
They are around the feet of the Eiffel Tower because of 'unquiet hamlets', we can say that it is
prostitutes who are not patient because if they get caught by the police, they couldn't do it.
his small business. From all this, we can see that the Eiffel Tower is a pervert.
In addition to that, we find verbs describing the face or a part of the body. As a result, at
at the beginning we found the verb 'to stare', in the infinitive which has a literal meaning of looking at someone
with attention or with insistence. According to the first verse, the Eiffel Tower watches us constantly, it
if represented as the people of prostitution. It's like the characters like the
prostitutes who watch and seek their clients. Moreover, the Eiffel Tower watches us attentively.
insistence, so taking the meaning of the text. The Eiffel Tower wants us to visit it, it wants that
we waste precious money to explore it. And we also found another verb that
can describe a part of the human body. We are talking about the verb 'to scratch' but also about
scratches. With verse 8 in mind, we could understand that his scratches there are on the Eiffel Tower.
The causes of its claws are made by the wind and the sands apparently, but we could believe it.
Is it because of human beings that the Eiffel Tower is damaged, or is it due to the rusting of the iron?
the skeleton of the Eiffel Tower. Moreover, if the wind and sand scratch the tower tremendously, it will be
destroyed the tower, the wind and sands are found everywhere in the air.

But that's not all that readers will have reflections on, we are not just...
talk about prostitution, but now from the perspective of this poem towards the Eiffel Tower.

First, let us mention the Eiffel Tower itself, which is mentioned in the title of the poem, and
the first two words of this poem. We know that the Eiffel Tower is represented as a
prostitute because according to our first part, the Eiffel Tower is an exhibitionist who is not afraid of
to show, even when in front of a child and with many tourists passing by every day. The
The Eiffel Tower is then a character in this poem. From which we then find the term.
"mercurochrome of minimum" which represents the blood of the Eiffel Tower. We can deduce from this
that this blood is not an abnormal blood. It could be the blood of the beats or even of
human activity that slowly but surely destroys it.
We will now talk about the perspective on all of this, the perspective on everything we have mentioned.
thus. The word 'toise' is used as a common noun and verb, which means to look. We
We can deduce that the Eiffel Tower looks at us in the same way that prostitutes do.
look when they were looking for clients. At the same time we said that the Eiffel Tower is a
personification of a prostitute. We discussed the different parts of the body that she emitted,
The gaze is also that of us, the readers, towards the Eiffel Tower. We could think of the tower.
Eiffel like a human who will be improperly undressed or dressed who cannot be shown
to the children. Then we have the verb to glare but in the present indicative, to glare which means
look. In verse 10, we will learn that the crowd, which in this case is the tourists, looks
the underside of the Eiffel Tower. If we consider the Eiffel Tower as a human being, from below it
and refers to the buttocks. The buttocks of the Eiffel Tower, that is to say the hole from where we are underneath her and
when we look up we see a hole up to the top of the tower.

In conclusion, the poet describes the Eiffel Tower as a human being by comparing it to a profession.
from the company, which is prostitution. We can deduce this because it is mentioned several times
take back the parts of the human body. Its body parts are not chosen randomly,
They are chosen with a theme in mind and here it is prostitution. With the looks that society
from today towards prostitution, this poem is very modern and evokes the effects of today
in the current world.