Je suis l'enfant soleil Je suis l'enfant soleil "Je suis l'enfant soleil" (translated: "I Am the Sun Child" or "I'm A Child of the Sun") was the French entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1979, performed in French by Anne-Marie David. David had won Eurovision six years earlier, representing Luxembourg at the 1973 Contest with "Tu te reconnaîtras". The song was performed eleventh on the night (following Israel's Gali Atari and Milk & Honey with "Hallelujah" and preceding Belgium's Micha Marah with "Hey Nana"). At the close of voting, it had received 106 points, coming third in a field of nineteen. The song is
Soleil et chair that Rimbaud failed to go beyond the experiments of his predecessors. The fixation on sexuality in this poem is characteristic of much of Rimbaud's oeuvre, and it is moreover the sheer bluntness with which he communicates it that is so shocking, controversial, and typical of him. In what would otherwise seem like an innocent paean for nature, Rimbaud begins the first two lines with a graphic image of the sun essentially ejaculating its light onto the nubile earth. The poem's speaker revels in his position between the lustful relationship of the sun and earth. "Soleil et chair," like some of