After reading Apollinaire's poem "Le Pont Mirabeau", watch the video clips and answer the following questions:
1. What is the significance of the Pont Mirabeau?
2. How does Marc Lavoine's song reflect the continued importance of Apollinaire's 1913 poem?
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Et nos amours
Faut-il qu'il m'en souvienne
La joie venait toujours après la peine
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
Les mains dans les mains restons face à face
Tandis que sous
Le pont de nos bras passe
Des éternels regards l'onde si lasse
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
L'amour s'en va comme cette eau courante
L'amour s'en va
Comme la vie est lente
Et comme l'Espérance est violente
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
Passent les jours et passent les semaines
Ni temps passé
Ni les amours reviennent
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
"Le Pont Mirabeau"
Apollinaire, Alcools (1913)
Friday, February 8, 2008
Le pont Mirabeau-Marc Lavoine (2001)
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The significance of the Pont Mirabeau is that love can only lasts for moments while nature will live forever. This video shows the despair of fading love with the hourglass but shows nature living forever with the flowing of the river.
I believe this story is about the shortness of life and how valuable it is. We should not loose any aspect that comes our way which is probably what this story portrays. I agree with the video that love fades in the you tubes and the nature lives forever.
The poem Le Point Mirabeau expresses the value of life and love. The writer is speaking about how fast time goes by and how the happy moments should be embraced because they will soon pass like water under the bridge. The video shows the seriousness of how short life really is.
I believe the significance of the Pont Mirabeau that life and love should be not taken for granted but instead it should be enjoyed to it's fullest measure because life can be so short and your lover's love isnt for eternity. So it tells us to enjoy it and love freely. This video brings out the great sound of love and life but the black and white tells me that in fades away.
I think that Le Pont Mirabeau shows that while love doesn't last forever and people will always change, some things will stay the same. The river represents how love slips away and nobody stays the same. The bridge represents unchanging circle of life.
We all know how transient life and love can be, and Le Pont Mirabeau articulates this fact. Marc Lavoine's song and music video are a testament to the poem's longevity and contemporary relevance, I think. The music video captures the mood of the poem really well because of it's stark and solemn nature.
The river represents how we flow through life building relationships and breaking them dowm over time much like rocks can be by constant erosion. Turning this poeme into a song makes it more current to new generations, who overlook the importance of poetry. It seems that in todays world that the main source of poetry exposer comes from the music that we listen to. To take a classic poem and very easily make it modern and relevant to new generations.
The significance of the Pont Mirabeau is that life is too short and we should embrace it, because it is always changing, like the water in the Seine. The video captures the mood and rhythm of the poem really well and shows how we should always live life to the fullest before it fades away.
The story shows that just like a river, things in life are always changing. We never know what will happen in the future and this story illustrates that.
everyone goes through life too fast. we are worried about exams and jobs and financial pressure and our future and forget to live in the here and now and i believe that is what this poem is portraying; to live in the here and now.
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