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5 - Demain dès l’aube de Victor Hugo
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1- Poème
Demain, dès l’aube, à l’heure où blanchit la campagne,
Je partirai. Vois-tu, je sais que tu m’attends.
J’irai par la forêt, j’irai par la montagne.
Je ne puis demeurer loin de toi plus longtemps.
Je marcherai les yeux fixés sur mes pensées,
Sans rien voir au dehors, sans entendre aucun bruit,
Seul, inconnu, le dos courbé, les mains croisées,
Triste, et le jour pour moi sera comme la nuit.
Je ne regarderai ni l’or du soir qui tombe,
Ni les voiles au loin descendant vers Harfleur,
Et quand j’arriverai, je mettrai sur ta tombe
Un bouquet de houx vert et de bruyère en fleur.
2- Translation
Tomorrow, at dawn, in the hour when the countryside becomes white,
I will leave. You see, I know that you are waiting for me.
I will go by the forest, I will go by the mountain.
I cannot stay far from you any longer.
I will walk the eyes fixed on my thoughts,
Without seeing anything outside, nor hearing any noise,
Alone, unknown, the back curved, the hands crossed,
Sad, and the day for me will be like the night.
I will not look at the gold of the evening which falls,
Nor the faraway sails descending towards Harfleur.
And when I arrive, I will put on your tomb
A green bouquet of holly and flowering heather.
3- Additionnal vocabulary
mes seuls ; my only
archaïque : ancient
un pèlerin : a pilgrim
sentez : imperative mode of “to feel”, so “feel”
un pèlerinage : a pilgrimage
ou non : or not
un port : a harbor
la campagne normande ; Normandy countryside
Chateaubriand : very famous French poet of the 19th century
sans conteste : without contest
un géant : a giant
entre autres : among others
Disney : note the pronunciation in French “ey” becomes “ay”
Le Bossu de Notre-Dame ; the hunchback of Notre Dame
éblouissante : dazzling
une bière : a beer
bien entendu : of course yes
connaît par coeur : knows by heart
le trajet : the way
Interesting links about the poem :
http://www.lettres.net/hugo/demain/index.htm
http://www.sequana-normandie.com/villequier.htm
Go to this site to hear another reading of the poem
http://www.wheatoncollege.edu/Academic/academicdept/French/ViveVoix/Resources/demaindeslaube.html
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