Finding it hard to find a French Poem about the Great War

[kerkevik_2014]

Everything comes up with nothing but English, or British, poets.

Did the French not write anything?

Even afterwards?

Unable to find anything that is even remotely relevant.

Really wanted to find something tonight, as I cannot find words myself.

Please let this not become an excuse for more blood-letting. Those hundreds of thousands are fleeing the results of events like this, that the perpetrators are undoubtedly hoping to feed.

Let this not become another step on the road of fear, ignorance, flames and misery.

We should be better than this by now.



Goddess watch over us all,
kerk

Comments

[endeni]

How about Italian poets?

Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale are perhaps the most famous Italian poets to have written about the Great War.

"Soldati" (Soldiers) by Ungaretti is one of my favourite poems:
Si sta come
d'autunno
sugli alberi
le foglie

Here's a reading.

And here's a few translations:

It's like being
in the autumn
on the trees
the leaves

They stand
like leaves
on the trees
in autumn

Soldiers
are like
the leaves on
the trees in
the fall

[kerkevik_2014]

Thank you!

Though I hope you'll understand there was a specific reason why I was looking for French poems, by French poets. Not what I got which was poems about France, by (mostly) English poets.

Of course maybe I should look for poems in French by Arab, or Lebanese poets?

Goddess, can I really be an alien (as I wished when I was a child) and be rescued from this insanity!

kerk

[endeni]

Of course dear, it's just that Italian poets was the best I could offer, since I couldn't think of any appropriate French poems. But I approve your idea to go looking for Lebanese and Arab works. ;)