{"id":1255,"date":"2010-06-10T22:28:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T05:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2010-06-10T22:29:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T05:29:20","slug":"french-trees-know-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=1255","title":{"rendered":"French trees know me"},"content":{"rendered":"

The homework for today’s French Pronunciation class was to memorize a French poem stanza or two to share with the class. I settled on the first 8 lines of “Aux arbes<\/a>“, by Victor Hugo:<\/p>\n

\nAux arbres<\/b><\/p>\n

Arbres de la for\u00c3\u00aat, vous connaissez mon \u00c3\u00a2me!
\nAu gr\u00c3\u00a9 des envieux, la foule loue et bl\u00c3\u00a2me;
\nVous me connaissez, vous! – vous m\u00e2\u20ac\u2122avez vu souvent,
\nSeul dans vos profondeurs, regardant et r\u00c3\u00aavant.
\nVous le savez, la pierre o\u00c3\u00b9 court un scarab\u00c3\u00a9e,
\nUne humble goutte d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122eau de fleur en fleur tomb\u00c3\u00a9e,
\nUn nuage, un oiseau, m\u00e2\u20ac\u2122occupent tout un jour.
\nLa contemplation m\u00e2\u20ac\u2122emplit le coeur d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122amour.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Who knew that Victor Hugo had a taste of Thoreau in him? Here’s my translation:<\/p>\n

\nTo the trees<\/b><\/p>\n

Trees of the forest, you truly know my soul!
\nMoved by envy, the pressing crowd praises and blames;
\nBut you know me, you! You have seen me often
\nAlone in your depths, gazing and dreaming.
\nYou’re well aware of how a stone on which a beetle runs,
\nA humble drop of water falling from flower to flower,
\nA cloud, a bird, can keep me busy all day.
\nThis kind of contemplation fills my heart with love.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can join the class and listen to my recitation of Aux arbres<\/a> (feel free to critique so I can improve!). Or have a computer read it to you with virtualfrenchtutor.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The homework for today’s French Pronunciation class was to memorize a French poem stanza or two to share with the class. I settled on the first 8 lines of “Aux arbes“, by Victor Hugo: Aux arbres Arbres de la for\u00c3\u00aat, vous connaissez mon \u00c3\u00a2me! Au gr\u00c3\u00a9 des envieux, la foule loue et bl\u00c3\u00a2me; Vous me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}