La paradoxal presència de l'absent Haidé

Having provided the coordinates to situate «The Reprisal of Haidé» within its double context (the volume Sequences and the so-called «Haidé Cycle»), the article centres on a close reading of the poem. The author analyses the performative function and the time/space relationship which determines the poem’s initial lines. At the same time, the contrast which a memory generates within the present produces a comparison with nature, and another with the wet-nurse and the child – by means of a mechanism similar to that used by Maragall in Nausica. Finally, at the poem’s conclusion, Haidé emerges as a figure of salvation present in absence.