La métaphore dans le poème Océan de Victor Hugo
<p class="Abstract">Victor Hugo is one of the romantic poets who has experience in <span style="font-size: 1rem;">politics. He criticized the Second Empire and Napoleon III almost all </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">his life and his criticism became the cause of his exile. The third series </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">of La Légende des Sièclesis the last book of poetry published before the </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">death of Victor Hugo. Océan is an example of a poem in the third series </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">that presents a contradiction between small and large spaces, </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">restrictions and extensions. This article will link the meaning and </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">function of the metaphor and structure of the poem used by Victor </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Hugo in the poem Océan with his personal life and historical context. </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">This study uses qualitative methods with techniques for the study of </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">literature. Through the analysis of the metaphorical function of Camp </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">(2003) and the poetic structure of Schmitt and Viala (1982), Océan </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">reflects Hugo as an innovative romantic poet who differs from the </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">rules of classicism and he has placed the ocean and humans in the </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">poem as representatives of Napoleon III specifically and the monarchy </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">in general and French society in those days. The metaphors are used </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">to describe the nature of the French government at that time.</span></p>