• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Okay, just be aware that this is cheesy as hell.

    The bells. One of my teachers in Jr high read it for the class.

    She had a great voice (but was honestly a bad teacher overall), and it really worked with that poem.

    It’s still my favorite poem to read out loud, though others have taken its place otherwise.

  • Eq0@literature.cafe
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    4 months ago

    A problem with poetry is that it cannot be translated, so I’ll refer the originals:

    • Correspondences by Baudelaire (what do you get if you mix many drugs in the French noble 1800s)
    • The Road not taken by Frost (every choice has a consequence)
    • Invictus by Henley (the power of the will and the soul)
    • Non chiederci la parola by Montale (the impossibility of knowing)