From de sensible to the intelligible. Qualia and categorization in Jaccottet's poetics

Abstract

This article approaches poetic mental operations that try to link the sensible with the intelligible within poetry. For this purpose, we will start with concept-resistant subjective experience –which is the one the poet is interested in– and, therefore, the same with the previously available language. Hereafter, a categorization mode referring to language and its mental representations, with the ability to make conceptual rigidity more flexible, and preventing the intellection of subjective experience of the sensible, will be proposed. By means of a poetic text by Philippe Jaccottet, it will demonstrated the relevance of this theoretical proposal.