The blossoming of modernity has, fort most part, got the best of discursivity in poetry, on the pretext that logical and referential discourse rather pertained to the impure field of prose. For several years now, Jacques Réda has been disregarding this bias, particularly in La Physique amusante (2009) (Amusing physics) and Lettre au Physicien (2012) (Letter to the Physicist), two collections devoted to the discoveries of modern physics. This article tries to enhance the contrapuntal value of didactic and scientific poetry here brought to light. Through these quaint poetic genres, Réda pays homage to a science which is just as overwhelming as it is inspiring. However, a parodic intention underlies the lessons which are developed throughout the poems. Reda does a pastiche of scholarly discourses so as to make a mockery of himself. He thus imposes a lightness and a sense of humour that can convey the pleasure the Sunday physicist feels when he tackles the most abstract postulates of science. Without professorial rigidity, the poems are carried by an imagination which contributes to the popularization of the physical theories and sometimes to their transformation into amazing fantasies. Some of the great metaphysical concerns which poetical tradition has been conveying since Antiquity then surface beneath the scientific discourse.