Resumen de Vertiges verlainiens: Paul et l'escarpolette
The textual analysis of Verlaine' s second « Ariette oubliée » — whose manuscript title is « escarpolette » or swing — connects its swaying movement and its theme — pain at the loss of the originary dyad. The poem's main mythical reference is to Orpheus and Eurydice, while it plays out the solution to loss enacted by Freud's little Hans — a rythmic Fort-Da that is the means and the product of the symbolic control of loss and frustration.
