Saturday, May 02, 2009
•A text in French by Charles, Duc d'Orléans (1394-1465)
•Written into a piece of music by Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918)
-Period of unrest.
-Wars + Plagues
-National identity challenged by other countries such as (E.g. England and Scotland)
-Remember Joan of Arc?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnvqsWVluCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URpsgQStbjo&feature=related
PICTURES OF BEOOOTIFOL SUMMER
IMAGINE...
•You are trapped in a house with a snow storm outside, the condition has been harsh for days.
•You look forward to the day that will come where the skies clear.
•And you think of the times you had fun in the sun.
•But the storm continues to rage on...
POET'S PURPOSE
•He is trapped by the chaos, just like how he is trapped by winter.
•His freedom and past happiness and joy are taken from him by this chaos.
•And he looks to it everyday.
•But the reality creeps in, he is still trapped.
•There is nothing he can do but to hate this chaos and hate this winter.
TRANSLATION
Yver, vous n'estes qu'un villain
Winter you cold and cruel fiend!
Esté est plaisant et gentil
Yet summer is so pleasant and gay,
En tesmoing de May et d'Avril
As witnessed by April and May
Qui l'acompaignent soir et main
When morning’s fair and evening fine.
Esté revest champs, bois et fleurs
Summer gilds the fields, woods and flowers
De sa livrée de verdure
With fine and verdant apparel
Et de maintes autres couleurs
And myriad delicate colours,
Par l'ordonnance de Nature
Such is the theme of nature’s colour
Mais vous,
But you…
Yver, trop estes plain
Winter you always
De nege, vent pluye et grezil;
bring the snow, wind, rain ice and hail!
On vous deust banie en essil.
We will banish you. Never fail.
Sans point flater, je parle plain,
Hear me, I want to speak my mind:
Yver, vous n'estes qu'un villain !
Winter you cold and cruel fiend!
