B. The quest for formal perfection Parnassiens The focus of the work form. They give honor to fixed forms, roundels and ballads (Banville), Sonnet (Heredia).
Reflection on the returns to the classic precepts: "The art worms in all countries, and all time, based on a single rule: Variety in Unity. - This one contains all the others. We need unity, ie the return of the same combinations, because without it, the verse is not a Being, and not interest us, we need the variety, because without it, verse and lulls us to sleep. (Banville, Petit Treaty of French poetry, 1872)
work is the subject of a cult, it allows you to find the perfect rhyme, rhythm appropriate, the right word ...
C. Space and time
If lyricism fades, is giving way to a descriptive poetry that explores the mysteries an indifferent nature and fatal. Seeking "variety in unity, poets readily turn to the exotic to discuss all facets of this nature that the poet gives up and explain that the show itself is worth meditating. The Barbarians Poems of Leconte de Lisle give rise to striking paintings that reveal the mysteries of nature is immutable and the vanity of human existence.
If the exotic is a major source of inspiration, the Parnassians readily explore the history and mythology. Banville refers to the ancient Greco-Roman, Heredia, brush in his Trophy, a series of pictures that evoke all of human history.
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