SONNET AND SESTINA: TWO CREATIVE CONTEMPORARY FORMS While Surrealism, a century ago, liberated the poem from all constraints, it must be acknowledged that in the twenty-first century, two fixed forms have regained their attractiveness: the sonnet and the sestina are thus particularly represented in the Anthologies of the Oulipo, an avant-garde literary group representative of contemporary so-called formal poetry. However, it seems interesting to reflect on the evolution of these two forms and to focus on the interest that the sestina (and other ‘quenines’) has aroused from a comparative analysis. We would like to show that the sestina (like the sonnet) is not only a textual plan (Adam, 2015). The different ways in which contemporaries have appropriated these forms make them poetic genres in their own right.