El Desdichado for Joe by marcopol
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El Desdichado
Je suis le Ténébreux, – le Veuf, – l’Inconsolé,
Le prince d’Aquitaine à la tour abolie :
Ma seule étoile est morte, – et mon luth constellé
Porte le Soleil noir de la Mélancolie.
Gérard de Nerval
I am the Dark One, – the Widower, – the Inconsolable,
The prince of Aquitaine with the abolished tower:
My only star is dead, – and my starry lute
Carries the black Sun of Melancholy.
thank you for the view and your comments
Comments (4)
Parme
Un peu de poésie fait toujours plaisir.
marcopol
C'est bien vrai, merci pour tes commentaires :)
PhthaloBlue
Gorgeous image!
JoeJarrah
What a beautiful evocation of the poem. The light is wonderful; i partiucularly like the gleaming sparks of light rising as if the notes themselves embodied the lost star.
I'm honoured by such a generous dedication!
marcopol
I built this image like a diptych, as if each of the characters were a sort of distanced reflection of the other. The poet, the troubadour; Orpheus perhaps? is the flame reviver. His complaint rises like the sparks of a wood fire that warms in the solitude of the night. In fact, it is a photo of fireflies that I integrated as a superimposition on the image; I liked this indefinable yellow-green luminosity that opposed the yellow-orange of the eclipse. Each firefly flies away like so many musical notes. The young woman, the beloved, the muse, the star is a quote from the entire body of your image, I also took up the role of the dress as a setting for the beauty of her body. This woman is dead in the poem, but I wanted her in an in-between, as if levitating in limbo, wondering like her poet what would become of their love. Finally, by choosing a real total eclipse of the sun as a background photo, I realized afterward that this halo visually associated with the young woman's body formed a question mark. Mourning leaves us, in fact, with many more questions than answers...
Gisela
Aww Lovely Marc.
marcopol
Thank you very much Gisela