The poem “Free Union” is written by the surrealist poet Andre Breton. It is great in many ways: as a free verse, for its complex nature, and is great for the unconventional ideas with which the female anatomy is depicted in the poem. Therefore, the title is to be seen as having different ideas and meanings. “Free Union” can be seen as the free union of the two sexes in general, between the poet and his wife, or between the poet and the ultimate woman living in his imagination. It can also indicate the free union of various heterogeneous images lying compressed in the poem, the images which otherwise would have remained unrelated in the outside world. It must also be taken as the free union of the strange and paradoxical words in the poem set with their utmost freedom. This paper is an analysis of the poem to see its surrealistic qualities, to highlight the beautiful way in which the poet depicts the female body, and also to examine how various images used in the poem help the poet in bringing out the central idea contained in it. Surrealism began as a movement in arts and literature. It attempted to express the workings of the unconscious mind in art by strange imagery and unfamiliar juxtaposition of content. Though the movement was influenced by Dadaism, its originator is André Breton, the author of “Free Union”. It had important precursors in Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Lautréamont. It also embraced Marxism for its revolutionary ideas. It believed in looking at the world with keener eyes and wanted to go beyond the conventions. Surrealism was more positive and was indeed an instrument of knowledge. Andre Breton’s poems must be read with these artistic and literary changes in mind. For him true reality lay in the subconscious, and he developed concepts and techniques to explore and express those depths. Therefore, in “Free Union” when he looks at the female body, his subconscious eye is active and it also has a Freudian approach to reality. The opening line can be taken as an illustration of it: “My love whose hair is woodfire her thoughts heat lightning her waist an hourglass” (Breton). Like Donne, he juxtaposes various images, but to get a proper meaning of the quoted line the reader has to go through the entire poem. The readers may get perplexed as they move through the diverse images in the poem, and for a coherent idea they have to be yoked together. They may get confused as the poet describes the same part of the body with several different, if not opposing, images. For example, Breton describes the tongue of his beloved as “smooth as amber and as glass/ my love her tongue a sacred host stabbed through/ her tongue a doll whose eyes close and open/ her tongue a fantastic stone” (Breton). This must be because her tongue has not just created one memory or one experience in the poet, but several. They bubble up from the unconscious mind in such a surprising way that a single image from the outside world is not enough to highlight what that female tongue had been to the poet in his life. Its passive nature, its erotic power, and its wounding power are juxtaposed in one line with various images. Similarly the poet moves on to the other parts of the body of his beloved with mixed memories and