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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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.
ReplyDeleteSeems 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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