The “Poetic Emotion” theorized by Reverdy in his post 1945 essays, which is different from the Real-life Emotion, is at the very heart of a refoundation of Lyricism, which is necessary in these times when the legitimacy of Poetic Expression is being doubted. Thus the Poet endeavours to think the articulation between the affective logic of the lyric text, the aesthetic effect made on a reader who is encouraged to act empathically, and the healing power this emotion has on a community thereby recovered at a level that is no longer national or particular, but universal.