Objectif:

découvrir un poème sur l’automne.

Paul Verlaine peint par Gustave Courbet

Paul-Marie Verlaine 30 March 1844–8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He was elected France's "Prince of Poets" by his peers. His poetry was admired and recognized as ground-breaking, serving as a source of inspiration.He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.

Paul VERLAINE

Can you put the different parts of Verlaine’s life in the right

order?

Born in Metz, he began writing poetry at an early age.His first published collection was Poèmes Saturniens (1866) when he was 22..

Verlaine's last years saw his descent into drug addiction, alcoholism, and poverty. He lived in slums and public hospitals, and spent his days drinking absinthe in Paris cafes.

Verlaine then meets the poet Rimbaud who will have a great impact on him.In July 1873 in a drunken, jealous rage, he fired two shots with a pistol at Rimbaud, wounding his left wrist, though not seriously injuring the poet. As an indirect result of this incident, Verlaine was arrested and imprisoned.

Following his release from prison, Verlaine travelled to England, where he worked for some years as a teacher and produced another successful collection, Sagesse.

He died in Paris at the age of 51 on 8 January 1896.

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• Musicality• Images• Moods• Feelings• Sounds• Words• Magic• Suggestion• Subtle

Travail en paires.Les mots importants du

poème:• Sanglot: sob• Blesser: to injure, to

hurt, to wound• Langueur: languor,

lethargy• Monotone• Suffocant: suffocating,

stifling• Blême: pale• Sonner: to ring, to strike• Se souvenir: to

remember

• Anciens: ancient, old• Pleurer: to cry• Vent: wind• Mauvais: bad• Emporter: to sweep

away• Pareil: similar, such• Feuille: leave• Morte: dead

About the poem:It is one of the best known in the French language. Itis included in Verlaine's first collection, PoèmesSaturniens (1866).

The first and second lines of the poem (Les sanglots longs des

violons de l'automne / Blessent mon cœur d'une langueurmonotone.) were broadcast by the Allies over Radio

Londres in1944 as a code message to the French Resistance inpreparation for D-Day. When the second line was

broadcast overthe radio waves, it signaled that the invasion was to come

in24 hours.

Chanson d'automne

Poèmes saturniens

Paul VERLAINE (1844-1896)

Les sanglots longsDes violonsDe l'automne

Blessent mon coeurD'une langueurMonotone.

Tout suffocantEt blême, quandSonne l'heure,

Je me souviensDes jours anciensEt je pleure

Et je m'en vaisAu vent mauvaisQui m'emporte

Deçà, delà,Pareil à laFeuille morte.

Chanson d’automne:Les sanglots longsDes violonsDe l'automneBlessent mon coeurD'une langueurMonotone.

Tout suffocantEt blême, quandSonne l'heure,Je me souviensDes jours anciensEt je pleure

Et je m'en vaisAu vent mauvaisQui m'emporteDeçà, delà,Pareil à laFeuille morte.

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