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This article analyses the concept of territory in Aimé Césaire's poetry specifically in his late books Cadastre and Ferrements. By definition, the concept of territory implies the ideas of identity and nation which are essential for a Caribbean poet. Aimé Césaire always combined political conscience with poetical conscience. By invoking the four elements, he invented a real cosmony with flora and fauna. He also created a new poetical territory where images art, subversive and political. This territory is not only re-created geographically but also linguistically. Aimé Césaire did not only reshape his own country, the island of Martinique, he also reshaped his adoptive language, metropolitan French. Therefore the poet disorients the occidental reader with his exotic subversion of French, and he succeeds in appropriating his country and his actual identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]