Abstract
Despite being usually known by his diversity of interests as well as of theoretical knowledges mobilized by his writing, the work of the French essayist Roland Barthes (1915-1980) keeps a constant which, unlike the aforementioned diversity, remains unexplored even today: the extremely tense and problematic relation with poetry. Tense and problematic because rare are the moments in which Barthes comes to poetry; when it does, he is extremely harsh with it (mainly on Writing Degree Zero). This paper aims to study this relation between Barthes and poetry based on the following hypothesis: these critics on poetry are explained and justified by what Barthes means by modernity (more precisely, such as originally conceived in Writing Degree Zero and resumed in some of his early Essays Critical). Thus, knowing what does the critic mean by modernity, as well as which are its demands, it will be possible analyze how modern poetry responds to them according to Barthes.
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