Sunday 4 April 2010

NPWM

Looking back over the last four days' poems, I notice they've all been Christian in character (except the lines from Phèdre, but Phèdre's Christian under the surface). Being an atheist myself, I feel I ought to redress the balance and translate something profane and secular for my next piece. Who's ungodly in French poetry? Victor Hugo was unconventional in his beliefs, but still a praying man I think. Jacques Prévert perhaps?
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  1. Anonymous5 April 2010 at 14:13

    Baudelaire? Was he an atheist, or just jaundiced? I can't actually remember anything about him other than a) a pervading sense of gloom and b) being really difficult, so yeah.

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  2. Seamus Geary5 April 2010 at 17:54

    Seems to be an uncertain question. Anyway, I'll happily take another run at Baudelaire whatever the truth is. I've done "La Géante" and "La vie antérieure" before.

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