Automne malade

[salinea]

Automne malade et adoré
Tu mourras quand l'ouragan soufflera dans les roseraies
Quand il aura neigé
Dans les vergers

Pauvre automne
Meurs en blancheur et en richesse
De neige et de fruits mûrs
Au fond du ciel
Des éperviers planent
Sur les nixes nicettes aux cheveux verts et naines
Qui n'ont jamais aimé

Aux lisières lointaines
Les cerfs ont bramé

Et que j'aime ô saison que j'aime tes rumeurs
Les fruits tombant sans qu'on les cueille
Le vent et la forêt qui pleurent
Toutes leurs larmes en automne feuille à feuille

Les feuilles
Qu'on foule
Un train
Qui roule
La vie
S'écoule

Appolinaire

Comments

[the-senjou.livejournal.com]

Once again I can understand the feeling of the poem but not the specifics.

I am really considering doing a brush up course. It distresses me that my French is still ok in the basics despite 7 years of it not being used, but not good. I am wondering whether I would be able to handle studying 3 languages in my spare time (the other two being Japanese, and potentially Spanish).

It's just annoying being able (in all 3 of those languages) to recognise a lot of vocabulary and understand the gist of what is written/said, but being completely unable to say/write anything back beyond ungrammatical grasping. I want to be able to communicate.

endeth rant :D

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Once more, if you want any kind of explanations or attempts at translations, just ask :)

I know how you feel, I'm the same with Spanish. Maybe it's wiser to wait until you're not studying so many languages at the same time? Though of course, time for study is always limited, alas.

[generalblossom.livejournal.com]

Bah, your autumn is not our autumn, though right now it´s starting to smell like autumn and the light is changing and I love it. Our autumn is different and so lovely after this hellish summer - but you are right, it is a marvelous poem just the same, and that last stanza does apply. Though weirdly for me, autumn always feels like new year, a start rather than a finish.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

It's not mine either. I think my own opinion is closer to Verlaine's, filled with a lulling love for melancholy.
I hear you about feeling like a start. Jewish new year is in Autumn of course :) and there's the school starting and everything is all exciting. By November, though...

I love Appolinaire, he writes beautiful poetry ♥

[(Anonymous)]

Do not know much Apollinaire, but will check, you are right, this poem is just perfect.

Jewish year is lunar isn´t it? meaning in a few decades it might be in summer or winter? But new year in september makes perfect sense for out type of weather where summer is hot hot and dry. I think part of new year feelings might be long ancestral peasant memories. In the country contracts were usually done from September 28 to September 28 of each year, September was the month for yearly markets and things like that. Read in medieval times, summer was the season where famines occurred, where stocks were running low. I once whined to GRRM about it, how a long long winter might sound pretty nice to mediterranean type climates ;)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Is that you T ? :)

Jewish year is solar, but the months are lunar. So exact days can swift from about 10 or 15 days from their Western calendar equivalent, but it's roughly at the same time of the year.
It's the Muslim calendar that is wholly lunar (hence Ramadan falling on winter or summer etc. depending on the years)

I'm not sure I believe much in ancestral memories. September feels like beginning to me because of the scholar new year. Could be interesting to ask a Japanese person what they think of it...
Do you know in which areas exactly the 28th September to 28th September was happening? I assume it wasn't exactly the same thing for the whole Europe.
I bet Dorne wouldn't have as hard a time with long winters indeed! XD