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Sad soft music for poetry recitation7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Un soir, t’en souvient-il ? nous voguions en silence Tu mugissais ainsi sous ces roches profondes,Īinsi tu te brisais sur leurs flancs déchirés,Īinsi le vent jetait l’écume de tes ondes Regarde ! je viens seul m’asseoir sur cette pierre Ô lac ! l’année à peine a fini sa carrière,Įt près des flots chéris qu’elle devait revoir, Ne pourrons-nous jamais sur l’océan des âges Les feuilles mortes se ramassent à la pelle,Īinsi, toujours poussés vers de nouveaux rivages,ĭans la nuit éternelle emportés sans retour, Les feuilles mortes se ramassent à la pelle Oh! je voudrais tant que tu te souviennesĮt le soleil plus brûlant qu’aujourd’hui. Unless otherwise noted, the literal translations are by me. So without further ado, let us dive in with these 10 most well-known French poems! We chose poems most French people will have read or learned, and might fondly remember from their youth. Rimbaud invented ‘prose poetry’ and by the 20th century, free verse had become very common in French poems. For example, Verlaine loved to use an odd number of syllables, favoring an 11-syllable verse for a lot of his work. Poets who break the rules and invent new ways with the language, such as Arthur Rimbaud or the Surrealists, have become cherished household names and continue to influence contemporary writers.Ĭlassic French poems use a 12-meter verse called “ alexandrin” but you will see many variations and other forms as well. Formally, French poems can be very codified (a lot of sonnets for example), but the French love their rebels. The subjects of course are endless, spanning from love, passion and grief to social issues and friendship. They start in preschool and elementary school with simple rhymes and poems written for kids, and continue in middle and high school, where they learn more classic and modern French poems as part of their literature courses. In fact, children learn French poems by heart as part of their school instruction. The French are also avid readers, and they feel very proud of their poetry. ![]() Perhaps that’s why you were drawn to it in the first place! The French language has many different vowel sounds (including nasals vowels), which contributes to this sense of flowing musicality. If you’re learning the language you already know French can be very melodious and musical. ![]()
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