Baudelaire in two types of English |
La Beaute is one of Charles Baudelaire's most famous poems. Here comes his view of beauty as something spiral seashell hard and cold, unapproachable even emerges. It is "like a dream carved in stone" and "like an incomprehensible sphinx".
It is written spiral seashell in the form of an Italian sonnet - two quatrains and two tersines a "volta" in line nine indicating a turn in the poem. The rules are vyfvoetige jambes. spiral seashell
Uys Krige, this verse is translated "before spiral seashell returning to South Africa in 1935," as he says in the "Postscript" from his collection "For spiral seashell the lute and guitar" African Press Bookstore 1950.
You thrones dance l'azur comme un sphinx incompris; J'unis un coeur de neige à la blancheur des Cygnes; Je Hais le mouvement qui déplace lesson Lines, et jamais je ne pleure et jamais je ne ris.
O mortal, I'm clean as a petrified dream. My chest where each beurt'lings him wound, singing my praise, let each inspired poets heart full of love stream ever and ever silence dumb as the dust.
I throne in asuur, a sphinx riddle lost; heart of snow whiteness of a swan facilitations I; i hate the movement that vormrus disturb; and I will not smile and I never weep.
It is remarkable how strange the English from the thirties for a contemporary reader may occur. Words like mortal, spiral seashell every poets, silence dumb, toebeskoor, klaarte etc.. one hardly expected in a modern poem, not to mention conversation language.
Many of the choice of words is probably due to the fact that Krige sonnet rhyme scheme follows and therefore words to get what is the abab rhyme scheme in the first stanza (to Baudelaire's abba). His rhythm are also nearly an iambic pattern.
You realize while reading this poem that English over the past eighty to ninety years a lot has changed. Like most languages, English continued to grow and develop and changing.
I have made my own translation of Baudelaire's spiral seashell poem and decided the rhyme and rhythm patterns completely ignoring and trying to get the essence of the poem in modern spiral seashell English. However, I stuck with the pattern of two quatrains and two tersines. My translation can not be described as a sonnet.
I seat the blue sky like an incomprehensible sphinx; heart white as snow, I give the whiteness of swans; disturbed I do not like motion lines, and I never cry and I never laugh.
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La Beaute is one of Charles Baudelaire's most famous poems. Here comes his view of beauty as something spiral seashell hard and cold, unapproachable even emerges. It is "like a dream carved in stone" and "like an incomprehensible sphinx".
It is written spiral seashell in the form of an Italian sonnet - two quatrains and two tersines a "volta" in line nine indicating a turn in the poem. The rules are vyfvoetige jambes. spiral seashell
Uys Krige, this verse is translated "before spiral seashell returning to South Africa in 1935," as he says in the "Postscript" from his collection "For spiral seashell the lute and guitar" African Press Bookstore 1950.
You thrones dance l'azur comme un sphinx incompris; J'unis un coeur de neige à la blancheur des Cygnes; Je Hais le mouvement qui déplace lesson Lines, et jamais je ne pleure et jamais je ne ris.
O mortal, I'm clean as a petrified dream. My chest where each beurt'lings him wound, singing my praise, let each inspired poets heart full of love stream ever and ever silence dumb as the dust.
I throne in asuur, a sphinx riddle lost; heart of snow whiteness of a swan facilitations I; i hate the movement that vormrus disturb; and I will not smile and I never weep.
It is remarkable how strange the English from the thirties for a contemporary reader may occur. Words like mortal, spiral seashell every poets, silence dumb, toebeskoor, klaarte etc.. one hardly expected in a modern poem, not to mention conversation language.
Many of the choice of words is probably due to the fact that Krige sonnet rhyme scheme follows and therefore words to get what is the abab rhyme scheme in the first stanza (to Baudelaire's abba). His rhythm are also nearly an iambic pattern.
You realize while reading this poem that English over the past eighty to ninety years a lot has changed. Like most languages, English continued to grow and develop and changing.
I have made my own translation of Baudelaire's spiral seashell poem and decided the rhyme and rhythm patterns completely ignoring and trying to get the essence of the poem in modern spiral seashell English. However, I stuck with the pattern of two quatrains and two tersines. My translation can not be described as a sonnet.
I seat the blue sky like an incomprehensible sphinx; heart white as snow, I give the whiteness of swans; disturbed I do not like motion lines, and I never cry and I never laugh.
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