Je pense aux matelots oubliés dans une île, / Aux captifs, aux vaincus!…à bien d’autres encor! I think of the sailors left behind on an island…of the captives, the conquered…of many others yet! Baudelaire, “Le Cygne”
Mad Beppo says August 10, 2023 at 2:38 pm The last two lines of this wonderful (IMO) poem. The translation could be read as two tetrameters with partly anapestic rhythm. Reply
Mad Beppo says
The last two lines of this wonderful (IMO) poem. The translation could be read as two tetrameters with partly anapestic rhythm.