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Most French children know Prévert’s poems because of his simplistic style while using everyday language that is not difficult understand. This made him a very popular poet to study in the French school system. Learning to recite this kind of … Continue reading
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Jacques Prévert was one of the most influential poets and screenwriters of the 1900s. His poems and other creations are still very popular in the French-speaking world, especially in schools. I’m pretty sure it’s an imaginary law to study at … Continue reading
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Heart and Raindrops This poem I would like to discuss “Il pleure dans mon coeur” was written by Paul Verlaine in 1874. Beneath is the original poem and underneath to the right of it is the best translation I could find without … Continue reading
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Arthur Rimbaud was well known as a violent, drugged drunk. However, he was also incredibly brilliant and talented. At the age of 13 he was named a promising prodigy whose lyrics of love and death would soon take over the French culture. Victor … Continue reading
Continental Drift
(Arthur Rimbaud, Guillaume Apollinaire)
An audio featuring Arthur Rimbaud and Guillaume Apollinaire by Kenneth Goldsmith
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La Cravate et La Montre was written in early 1914 from the last issue of Apollinaires’ Les Soirées de Paris (a literary magazine founded in 1912 by Apollinaire and a group of his friends) just before the start of WWI. … Continue reading
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The war in 1914 was a tragically influential time for writers. From it, a modernist era was created. this contained works from artists that added a historical base while experimenting with the human and personal qualities within them. People began … Continue reading
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