First Day
First Day - fact Summary
Included in Paroles Collection
This poem appears in Jacques Prévert's collected poems Paroles. It uses a spare, cumulative sequence to move from intimate details—a newborn and its mother—to larger settings: house, city, night, and finally the juxtaposition of death and life. The progression compresses time and space, presenting birth and mortality as simultaneous parts of ordinary existence. Its brevity and plain diction embody Prévert’s accessible style and invite immediate comprehension rather than formal elaboration, making the poem a compact meditation on continuity between beginnings and endings.
Read Complete AnalysesThe white blankets in the closet, the red blankets in the bed, an infant in his mother, his mother in pain, the father in the corridor, the corridor in the house, the house in the city, the city in the night, the death in a cry, and the infant in the life.
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