Notes sur le ciel bleu par temps de confinement.

Referring to Senancour's Oberman, Hölderlin's Hyperion and Carl David Friedrich's painting Wanderer above the Mists, this paper attempts to figure out the romantic approach to sky and clouds as cultural, artistic, and philosophical symbols. Considered as an unlimited space, the sky is an endless matter of meditation regarding human finitude. In several European countries, the recent experience of lockdown has revived this meditation in new terms: notable changes in the sky's appearance suggest that our environment cannot only be regarded as our property, of which we are the guardians; it requests a poetic attention that helps us face the limitless world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]