“La Sorgue”

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“La Sorgue” is a poem by Aimé Césaire that celebrates and mythologizes the Sorgue River while expressing themes of resistance, identity, and decolonization.

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“La Sorgue” canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf poem
associatedWith Caribbean intellectual history
French colonial history
author Aimé Césaire
countryOfOrigin France
creatorEthnicity Afro-Caribbean
creatorNationality Martinican
genre lyric poetry
political poetry
hasSetting Provence
Sorgue River
language French
literaryDevice imagery
metaphor
mythologization of a river
personification
literaryForm free verse
literaryPeriod 20th century
mainSubject Sorgue River
movement Négritude
linked to: Negritude
theme anti‑colonial struggle
black consciousness
decolonization
identity
landscape and nature
memory
resistance
tone celebratory
defiant
mythic

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Le Soleil des eaux textSource “La Sorgue”
Le Soleil des eaux movementTitle “La Sorgue”