Classic Literature

attention !

as my soul longs for another's company, I subsequently am looking for one to converse with, a pen pal of sorts, ideally sharing an interest in the following:

• dark academia

• classical architecture

• roman & greek classicism

• latin (in lingua)

• the secret history

• classical literature

• an interest in reading in general

• open to the possibility of exchanging letters ?

• a passion for music

• a love for the obscure and esoteric

• a proclivity toward sesquipidalianism

• a tired soul confined to the body of one in their late teens

any (or none) will suffice, I am simply looking for someone to talk to and in turn who is willing to talk back 🖤

my favorite latin phrases

serva me, servabo te- save me and I will save you

venti, vidi, vici- I came, I saw, I conquered

capax infiniti- holding infinity

ita vero- thus indeed

mea vita- my life (in reference to someone)

amata- beloved

ad astra per aspera- to the stars through difficulties

stēllāns- having the appearance of stars

amera vita- love life

Gras es noster- The future is ours

“epilogue”

he so fevently dreamed

aged and decrepit

shaking

in the building

flooded with moonlight

he no longer forced praise

and could not

sever ties with

the only connection

to

black-bordered death

a flood of painful memories

roaring

and

beautiful

Mercy never existed

reality never existed

he

just dreamed it all under the influence

a blackout poem made using a page taken from The Master and Margarita. Kind of reminded me of the time Richard almost froze himself to death in the mandolin factory because he was too scared to tell anyone that he had nowhere to stay during break.

“wild geese” from dream work by mary oliver, may 1986

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | We Should All Be Feminists | 2014

The Painted Hall, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London SE10, England,

©Will Pryce / Country Life

you don’t need to go to a prestigious university or an exclusive boarding school to get dark academia vibes. you can be a pretentious brooding scholar at your local public high school as well. leave books on renaissance paintings and ancient rituals open on library desks. write ominous notes in the margins of textbooks. quote byron on the bathroom stall door. wear an unmistakable scent of perfume, so when you enter a classroom, everyone knows that you’ve arrived. cut your hair in the sink of the science lab. slip roses into random lockers. surround yourself with a few number of close friends and form your own secret circle. gain a reputation. have whispers follow you down the hallways. I would, however, advise against murder.

dark academia life is just [reads book in one sitting] [tries to memorize shakespeare quotes] [scribbles unintelligible greek words on back of hand] [quotes arthur rimbaud] [commits murder] [drinks 5 cups of coffee] ["looks like you missed your latin lessons today!" ft. a terrifying owl] [quotes oscar wilde] [wears poofy clothes] [quotes the secret history] [writes bad poetry in notes app] [yearns to be understood]

Masterlist: Vocab lists

Octobre

Yoga

Cheveux

Mer

Le marché de noel

Le bricolage

La mort

Le tribunal

La voiture

Ecriture inclusive

Space

La guerre

Vocabulaire du jour 1

Vocabulaire du jour 2

Vocabulaire du jour 3 

Vocabulaire du jour 4

Vocabulaire du jour 5

Vocabulaire du jour 6 

Vocabulaire du jour 7

Vocabulaire du jour 8

Vocabulaire du jour 9

Vocabulaire du jour 10

La Mante S1 E1

La Mante S1 E2

La Mante S1 E3

La Mante S1 E4 and 5

La Mante S1 E6

Workout

Recap Vocab verbes

Recap Vocab adverbes

Recap Vocab adjectifs

Recap Vocab nouns

Study Vocab

Hockey

La casa de papel/ Money Heist

La casa de papel/ Money Heist season 5 episode 1

Random Vocab

Random Vocab 2

Télévision et film

Faire du camping

La cuisine

L’île mystérieuse part 1

L’île mystérieuse part 2

L’île mystérieuse part 3

Le tour du monde en 80 jours part 1

Le tour du monde en 80 jours part 2

Voyage au centre de la terre part 1

Voyage au centre de la terre part 2

Vingt mile lieues sous les mers

Le Horla

Science et recherche

Bel Ami chapitre 1 

Bel Ami chapitre 2 

Bel Ami chapitre 3 

Bel Ami chapitre 4

Bel Ami chapitre 5

Bel Ami chapitre 6 

Bel Ami chapitre 7

Bel Ami chapitre 8

Bel Ami 2.1

Bel Ami 2.2.

Bel Ami 2.3

Bel Ami 2.4

Bel Ami 2.5 + 2.6

Bel Ami 2.7

Bel Ami 2.8+2.9+2.10

Flaubert: Un coeur simple

Flaubert: La légende de Saint Julien

Flaubert: Hérodias 

Nautical vocab in French

Au travail

L’environnement

La parure - Maupassant

Words I didn’t know in le Musée d’Orsay

Halloween

Les instruments

Les vêtements

Song translation masterlist/ Expressions masterlist / Grammar masterlist

Bonjour maman! I hope you are doing well. I am an avid reader and lover of poetry and I have wanted to read French poetry for a long, long time. Could you please suggest some poems/collections (B1 - B2) for me?

Hello dear,

It would be hard to make a universal list for this because B1/B2 can look many different ways, the best advice I have is to check out famous authors and see at first glance if their stuff looks too hard for you or not. Here are the basics and an example:

B1/B2 with a good dictionary:

Correspondance by Charles Baudelaire

Dans les bois by Paul Verlaine

La demoiselle by Théophile Gautier

Les malheureux by Louise Ackermann ♀

Crépuscule by Guillaume Apollinaire

Les yeux d'Elsa by Louis Aragon (which I would claim to be the most beautiful love poem in the world)

L'hirondelle by Sophie d'Arbouville ♀

Chanson à boire by Nicolas Boileau

La nuit de printemps by Théodore de Banville

L'ennui de Léonore by Victoire Babois ♀

Les feuilles mortes by Jacques Prévert

Regrets d'amour by Pierre Corneille

Des vivants et des morts - Andrée Chedid ♀

Le désir by Anatole France

À Aurore by George Sand ♀

Par un mauvais temps by Alfred de Musset

Melancholia by Victor Hugo

Le bonheur est mélancolique by Cécile Sauvage ♀

C1/C2 but give it a try anyway:

Première soirée by Arthur Rimbaud

Luth compagnon de ma calamité by Louise Labé ♀

La sagesse by Alphonse de Lamartine

Prière de Socrate by Gérard de Nerval

Le temps de vivre by Anna de Noailles ♀

Le songe by Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Ce que dit l'homme de peine by Paul Éluard

Élégie du printemps by Pierre de Ronsard

La grande douleur que je porte by Christine de Pisan ♀

Poème à Uranie - Voltaire

La prison by Alfred de Vigny

L'amour et la folie by Jean de la Fontaine

Ô qu'une sagesse profonde by François de Malherbe

L'âme errante by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore ♀

Les fleurs by Stéphane Mallarmé

Le lundi à Vêpres by Jean Racine

C'était novembre by Vénus Khoury-Ghata (1937-) ♀

Holy shit:

Escargots by Francis Ponge (XX, surrealism)

Nous ne sommes fâchés by Joachim Du Bellay (XVI)

Ballade des dames du temps jadis by François Villon (XV)

Lai du Frêne by Marie de France ♀ (XII)

Je brûle avec mon coeur by Théodore Aggripa d'Aubigné (XVI)

Plus:

Entire anthology about female poetry

Hope this helps! x