During the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century, the relationship between prose and poetry is questioned in terms of a divergence between the « tyranny » of French versification, and what is felt to be «poetical ». The response was the invention of poetic prose ; then prose entered poetry with the prose poem. Close analysis reveals it to maintain, in its very form, the original « spleen » about poetry's poetry which led to poetic prose. Citer ce document / Cite this document : Vincent-Munnia Nathalie. Premiers poèmes en prose : le spleen de la poésie.