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Sep. 21st, 2007

Chanson D'automne--Paul Verlaine

"Les sanglots longs
Des violons
De l'automne
Blessent mon coeur
D'une langueur
Monotone.

Tout suffocant
Et blême, quand
Sonne l'heure,
Je me souviens
Des jours anciens
Et je pleure,

Et je m'en vais
Au vent mauvais
Qui m'emporte
Deçà, delà
Pareil à la
Feuille morte."

I realized that this is the same poet that had relations with my favorite French poet thus far, Authur Rimbaud(ri bo), the I is nasal but I can't make the symbol...so yeah. Anyway, I love Rimbaud, he's amazing. This is one of the poems I have to memorize and recite Tuesday.

I'm so very tired. I can't just sleep it off either. I'm restless--I often get like this and I can't stand it. I want to do extra EVERYTHING but at the same time I have absolutely no motivation. I should fast I think, maybe that will get me out of this funk. Next week will be busy: two tests, poem recitations, meet with advisors, get busy with honors contract(!!!!!), submit information for NSE. phew...busy busy.

I need to pay more attention to my responses for lit class. I get so embarassed when I make stupid mistakes like saying "collection" instead of "recueil"-WE WENT OVER THIS IN THE CLASS BEFORE, saying la ligne instead of vers--WE WENT OVER THIS THE CLASS BEFORE DANG IT!! I bet my teacher thinks I'm such an idiot or a slacker. I feel like one. It amazes me how much I beat myself up about the mistakes, yet I keep doing it...I've made myself a schedule though, so I can get accelerate my skills. I'm going to actually use the grammer and verb and vocabulary books I bought over the summer.