French poetry
Frenchies, along great war stories and hero stories and all kinds of other french bullcrap, also have poetry. French poetry.
It can be grouped into two big and french categories: poetry about losing the will to live, and poetry that causes losing the will to live.
The most tedious French poet in history, from a long list of french poets, was Racine who wrote entirely in Alexandrines (and not, as some people believe, Alexander who wrote entirely in Racines) and was a chubby french fellow.
Racine’s most famous french lines are:
“Que fais-tu ici Dans ce mauvais endroit, dans cette place interdite”
(which in English means “What are you doing here in this bad and forbidden place”)
This is also the french basic plot element in most of French movies.
French poetry came to an end with the rise of French pop music, which is exactly like American pop music except that “Yeah,yeah” is spelt Yé-Yé.
October 10th, 2007 at 12:06 am
I bet the French blame Disneyland for that….or slim cigarettes….
October 10th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
I don’t think Racine is the best exemple….He wasn’t even a poet!
October 10th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Yes he was. Let me quote wikipedia :
October 10th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
ok. To be perferctly exact, he was a playwriter, that’s why you can find poetry in his writings.But he’s known for his plays, like “Andromaque” or “Britannicus”, which are really great, not because they were written by a French writer, but because he was inspired by the Greaak Antiquity and Mythology. Voilà!
October 10th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Greek sorry! French keyboard again!
October 10th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Yes and a playwriter is also a poet, because his plays have all the properties of a poem. Just like Shakespeare.
Instead of being happy you do have something of value in that country …. :p
October 10th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
October 11th, 2007 at 12:36 am
They also have Zidane…
The poet of the ball
As long as I recall
He has a small… eyeball? football?
Something that rhymes with “all”… fall… wall… pitfall
Oh, wait, Head-butt :))
October 11th, 2007 at 7:29 am
I just want to say that I hate French people too. Everything they do is irrelevant. I spent 3 months there, and had to come back early because I couldn’t take it anymore. I’ve had a first-hand experience viewing the French and their extreme laziness. They take too many naps, they’re behind and backwards, they smoke too much, they try to imitate American culture and then they say we don’t have any culture, they don’t brush their teeth twice a day and they try to conserve water by just bathing in perfume (lol!), they LOVE and cherish “McDo’s,” they spend about 5 HOURS at the table during dinnertime just TALKING…..And the list continues….Oh and their television SUCKS! They copy American reality shows horribly! The language is the only aspect that I’ve come to terms with…
October 12th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
is it too much to understand that we simply don’t share the same culture? Are the facts of “taking too many naps” or “smoking a lot” enough to hate a nation? I quite agree with you on the reality-tv thing, but we don’t imitate American culture, “Mcdo” ’s not something cultural!!! We do brush our teeth and we do bathe everyday! Enough with this, it’s just ridiculous!!
If you came here only for 3 months, you can’t pretend you know us; don’t think you know what you’re talking about! I’ve spent quite a long time in the US and in the UK, and there are still some aspects that i just don’t understand! You hate us because we talk too much at dinner???? Who’s the one being backwards???
October 12th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
It’s not polite to talk with your mouth full.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
That’s right, I’m still at table but i ate 4 hours ago so it’s ok!