French poetry 101 – reader feedback

[foudebassan]

[Poll #970275]

Comments

[zafania.livejournal.com]

(doesn't know much about french peorty but is happy to be edumacated)

were there really poets called pong and pervert, or are you winding me up?

[foudebassan.livejournal.com]

There's one called Aragorn and another Bonnefoy (bonne = good; evil = mal as in Malfoy)

[zafania.livejournal.com]

did he look shaggably scruffy like vigo mortensen tho?

[foudebassan.livejournal.com]

Not really

[zafania.livejournal.com]

*squints*

looks like hes wearing a butt plug tho

[foudebassan.livejournal.com]

How can you tell that?

(OK, OK, I'll concede you're English... no other nationality would have suggested something like this that quickly)

[zafania.livejournal.com]

*smirks triumphan*tly

[foudebassan.livejournal.com]

Just don't go around telling everyone the French are perves, that's all I ask...

[zafania.livejournal.com]

I dont have to- everybody already knows

[foudebassan.livejournal.com]

Ha!

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

After all, he is the one wearing the but plug, not a Brit.

You must be reasonable about these things.

Zaffy just noticed.

[17catherines.livejournal.com]

Actually, I know nothing about French poetry, and am simply (and lazily) enjoying the ride. Though I can't tell if I never want to read any Prevert ever, ever again, or whether I would enjoy the nostalgia trip!

So - post what appeals to you. I'm enjoying it regardless.

love

Catherine, enthusiastic but unhelpful

[foudebassan.livejournal.com]

Prévert's easy so I thought he might appeal to non-Native speakers... We'll see.

[foudebassan.livejournal.com]

He's not! He's thinking about Brits not being able to read his poetry because they can't speak French and that gives his this tight, yet sorrowful expression! You're misreading everything!

[closetravenclaw.livejournal.com]

I am still trying to catch up, so if you don't post one a day that is fine with me. :D

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

~looks unconvinvced~

I had a look on the back of that picture and it had something on it in the poet's own handwriting complaining about the way his butt plug was chafing.

His own handwriting!

[foudebassan.livejournal.com]

You misunderstood - it was a complain about how little French the Brits really get, and all you could see in that was the inadvertant innuendo.

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

Pfah!

[17catherines.livejournal.com]

That's exactly why we get him in school so much!

(I am hearing the voices of my french teachers in my ears right now on the subject of Prevert's simplicity of language and what this represents, aside from an easy poem to teach your students)

[sylvanawood.livejournal.com]

I like it, I read it, whether you post once, twice or more every day, or only every second day. As long as you're having fun with it, too?

[foudebassan.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, don't worry about that :)

[foudebassan.livejournal.com]

I think I'll do a big link-post when it's finished.

[foudebassan.livejournal.com]

Is your butt plug chafing, to provoke such an exclamation?

[foudebassan.livejournal.com]

Laziness, and unwillgness to use all of one's vocabulary?

(I never could get into Prévert)

[17catherines.livejournal.com]

There were one or two poems of his that I liked - but we had to study so very many of them that I suspect this was simply a matter of odds...

[foudebassan.livejournal.com]

They do have some kind of charm, but I do think he's widely over-rated by French teachers all around the world :(

[17catherines.livejournal.com]

Agreed.