I've never commented on these before, for some odd reason, though I've enjoyed all forays greatly.
Lovely poem, though I had to force myself and read it in a more 'proper' staccatto than the presumably Bruxellois accent I suspect I've acquired living here. Once you get all the syllables down, it has a beautiful rhythm.
Mmm - I second the motion for Verlaine. Sweet absinthe decadence prefered...
Funny story - when I first attended school here, I could barely speak any French (second foreign language in Romania, with a focus heavy on the grammar, so-so on the vocab, and zero on the pronunciation). So during a literature discussion on the infamous couple of Verlaine and Rimbaud, I kept pairing Verlaine up with 'Rambo' in my mind, which is what Rimbaud's name sounded like to my untrained ears.
~coughs~ Because it wouldn't have been a comment of mine without something odd creeping in.
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Lovely poem, though I had to force myself and read it in a more 'proper' staccatto than the presumably Bruxellois accent I suspect I've acquired living here. Once you get all the syllables down, it has a beautiful rhythm.
Mmm - I second the motion for Verlaine. Sweet absinthe decadence prefered...
Funny story - when I first attended school here, I could barely speak any French (second foreign language in Romania, with a focus heavy on the grammar, so-so on the vocab, and zero on the pronunciation). So during a literature discussion on the infamous couple of Verlaine and Rimbaud, I kept pairing Verlaine up with 'Rambo' in my mind, which is what Rimbaud's name sounded like to my untrained ears.
~coughs~ Because it wouldn't have been a comment of mine without something odd creeping in.