{"id":10613,"date":"2017-01-25T11:40:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T03:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/?p=10613"},"modified":"2018-09-19T22:51:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:51:11","slug":"teacher-diaries-ms-valencia-the-poem-i-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/2017\/01\/teacher-diaries-ms-valencia-the-poem-i-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Diaries: Ms Valencia \u2013 The Poem I Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Boudelaire was one of the most influential poets in the Symbolist movement in the 19th century. My favourite poem is <i>Correspondences<\/i>\u00a0by Boudelaire\u00a0in his well-known publication\u00a0<em>Les Fleurs du mal<\/em>. We experience and perceive the world through a mixture of senses, and we usually think of the five senses as separate entities. However, in this poem, the poet engages the\u00a0five senses in the form of synesthesia.<\/p>\n<p>There are many versions of English translation of this poem, and the following is one of them:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Correspondences<\/span><br \/>\nLa Nature est un temple o\u00f9 de vivants piliers<br \/>\nLaissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles;<br \/>\nL&#8217;homme y passe \u00e0 travers des for\u00eats de symboles<br \/>\nQui l&#8217;observent avec des regards familiers.<br \/>\nComme de longs \u00e9chos qui de loin se confondent<br \/>\nDans une t\u00e9n\u00e9breuse et profonde unit\u00e9,<br \/>\nVaste comme la nuit et comme la clart\u00e9,<br \/>\nLes parfums, les couleurs et les sons se r\u00e9pondent.<br \/>\nII est des parfums frais comme des chairs d&#8217;enfants,<br \/>\nDoux comme les hautbois, verts comme les prairies,<br \/>\n\u2014 Et d&#8217;autres, corrompus, riches et triomphants,<br \/>\nAyant l&#8217;expansion des choses infinies,<br \/>\nComme l&#8217;ambre, le musc, le benjoin et l&#8217;encens,<br \/>\nQui chantent les transports de l&#8217;esprit et des sens.<br \/>\n\u2014 Charles Baudelaire<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Correspondences<\/span><br \/>\nNature is a temple in which living pillars<br \/>\nSometimes give voice to confused words;<br \/>\nMan passes there through forests of symbols<br \/>\nWhich look at him with understanding eyes.<br \/>\nLike prolonged echoes mingling in the distance<br \/>\nIn a deep and tenebrous unity,<br \/>\nVast as the dark of night and as the light of day,<br \/>\nPerfumes, sounds, and colors correspond.<br \/>\nThere are perfumes as cool as the flesh of children,<br \/>\nSweet as oboes, green as meadows<br \/>\n\u2014 And others are corrupt, and rich, triumphant,<br \/>\nWith power to expand into infinity,<br \/>\nLike amber and incense, musk, benzoin,<br \/>\nThat sing the ecstasy of the soul and senses.<br \/>\n\u2014 William Aggeler, The Flowers of Evil (Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Boudelaire was one of the most influential poets in the Symbolist movement in the 19th century. My favourite poem is Correspondences\u00a0by Boudelaire\u00a0in his well-known publication\u00a0Les Fleurs du mal. We experience and perceive the world through a mixture of senses, and we usually think of the five senses as separate entities. However, in this poem, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":10633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[713],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12370,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10613\/revisions\/12370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}