Abstract
The oracle was expressed in the form of an enigma. It fell to a wise man to decipher it and make the encrypted message apparent. If history is the art of looking at the enigmas of the past and grasping their nature as much as the reasons that made them indecipherable to their contemporaries, then looking to the future with the foreknowledge of what might happen is its corollary. If the poet oscillates between memory and intuition, between heritage and foresight of future catastrophes, how can the rigor of the historian and the scientific demands of the climatologist illuminate the writing of the poem ?
