Easy French Poetry (French Today) show

Easy French Poetry (French Today)

Summary: Bonjour à tous and welcome to Easy French Poetry where I read some of the most Classic French Poems. I will read them twice: once slowly - so you may repeat after me - and once at a more natural reading pace. I will sometimes also talk about the life of the author, explain the vocabulary or do an analysis of the text using simple, everyday French. You will find the full text of the poems accompanied by the audio on my website FrenchToday.com as well as much more audio material such as The Easy French Poetry Readings and Analysis series, Classic French Tales, French Verb Drills, reachable audio novels...

Join Now to Subscribe to this Podcast
  • Visit Website
  • RSS
  • Artist: French Today
  • Copyright: © 2006-10 Camille Chevalier-Karfis

Podcasts:

 "Voyelles" d'Arthur Rimbaud | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 6:05

'Arthur Rimbaud: Voyelles. C'est le premier poème rimbaldien qui utilise l'association comme principe d'écriture

 "Spleen" de Charles Baudelaire | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 6:05

Ce poème est écrit en Alexandrins, donc le rythme est très important,...

 "Dans la Forêt Sans Heures" de Jules Supervielle | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:15

À l'écart du mouvement surréaliste, la poésie de Supervielle est humaine, souvent inspirée par le monde qui nous entourre et la nature.

 "Les Colchiques" de Guillaume Appollinaire | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4:34

Poète et théoricien de l'Esprit nouveau, ses oeuvres annoncent déjà surréalisme. Dans ce poème, la femme est associée à une fleur des champs, la colchique. Mais la colchique est vénéneuse, c'est donc un poison...

 "Liberté" de Paul Eluard | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 6:36

To commemorate Veterans Day, Eluard's famous poem "Freedom".

 "Les Conquérants" de José Maria de Hérédia | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

From the very end of the 19th century, this poem is the incarnation of The French "Parnasse" movement.

 "L'Abeille" de Paul Valéry | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Paul Valéry croit que la poésie possède un pouvoir émotionnel qui peut être presque magique...

 "Sonnet XXIV" de Louise Labé | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The message of the poem is simple and still so very modern: love and its torments...

 "À Une Passante" de Charles Baudelaire | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Au milieu d’une rue étourdissante, le poète croise du regard une femme qui passe et il est ébloui par sa beauté et sa noblesse. Quand elle disparaît tout à coup dans la foule, il devient découragé....

 "Le Paresseux" de Marc Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

This poem in middle French, from the 17th century, is an hymn to indolence. Saint-Amant was a libertin poet, who enjoyed all the pleasures of life, liked to eat, drink, smoke and rest, as depicted in this poem.

 "Quand Au Mouton Bêlant" d'André Chénier | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Born in 1762, André Chénier is sentenced to death by guillotine at 32 years old, as Robespierre imposes the Terror through France.

 "Le Rameur" de Paul Valéry | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

"Le Rameur" describes a man who is rowing on a beautiful river. All is calm and you can only hear the sounds of his oars. The images are gorgeous and so is the rhythm.

 "De la Jeune Dame Qui A Vieil Mary" de Clément Marot | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4:21

In this 16th century poem written in old French, a young woman is being married to an older man. She shares with us her attempts to seduce her husband, her torments and the decision she finally takes.

 "Délie XXIV" de Maurice de Scève | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:18

Published in 1544, Scève's "Délie, objet de plus haute vertu" is a cycle of 449 poems, an endless examination of the physical and spiritual pains of an impossible love.

 "Le Chêne et le Roseau" de Jean de la Fontaine | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 6:59

This fable tells a great story about a reed (which represent the people) and an all-mighty oak (representing the king)...

Comments

Login or signup comment.