Re: Iversen's second multiconfused log thread
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 6:19 pm
EN: Are you ready for another dose of French poetry? Well, then there is another tragic poet who lived at approximately the same time as Bertrand, namely Gérard de Nerval (Born Labrunie), who "committed suicide during the night of January 26, 1855, hanging himself from a sewer grating in a narrow street named Rue de la Vieille-Lanterne.". During my study years I once wrote a structural analysis of the poem "El Desdichado" from "Les Chimères" (here quoted from "Grande Biblioteque Poétique"):
FR: El Desdichado
Je suis le ténébreux, le veuf, l'inconsolé,
Le prince d'Aquitaine à la tour abolie :
Ma seule étoile est morte, et mon luth constellé
Porte le soleil noir de la Mélancolie.
(...)
EN: And what happened? HA ha, the teacher who was supposed to judge it was an old lady with a penchant for soft Freudian analysis and wobbly human content, and I came with something that looked like a hardcore instruction manual for a some kind of technical equipment. She flatly refused it, but I just published the analysis without any changes in our Institute magazine ("préPublications") and wrote something else for another teacher to get my points.
FR: El Desdichado
Je suis le ténébreux, le veuf, l'inconsolé,
Le prince d'Aquitaine à la tour abolie :
Ma seule étoile est morte, et mon luth constellé
Porte le soleil noir de la Mélancolie.
(...)
EN: And what happened? HA ha, the teacher who was supposed to judge it was an old lady with a penchant for soft Freudian analysis and wobbly human content, and I came with something that looked like a hardcore instruction manual for a some kind of technical equipment. She flatly refused it, but I just published the analysis without any changes in our Institute magazine ("préPublications") and wrote something else for another teacher to get my points.