Breakfast
Breakfast - context Summary
Published in Paroles 1946
"Breakfast" was published in 1946 in Jacques Prévert's major collection Paroles. The poem’s terse, everyday narration — a sequence of ordinary morning actions that ends with a sudden departure and the speaker’s cry — fits the collection’s plainspoken, populist tone. Paroles gathered many of Prévert’s short, conversational pieces after World War II and helped make his voice widely known. Knowing this publication context helps readers situate the poem as part of a postwar repertoire that favored accessible language and emotional immediacy over formal complexity.
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