I wrote this poem a couple weeks ago. It deals with the young men who fought in the emeute (rebellion) in Les Miserables. They called themselves the Friends of the ABC ("abaisse" - French for abased, poor) Hugo apparently put a lot of effort into making these men express certain views. The Friends of The ABC were an utterly miserable set of young men whose utmost goal was death. They truly did care about the poor class of France but they had nothing to give to them. Even giving up their lives did absolutely no good to help their cause. They succeeded only in killing themselves and others with them. However, Hugo feels infinitely sorry for them and tries to show their wretched condition. In fact, when the book was published, many people were offended by the sympathy with which he portrayed these rebels.
The poem is meant to discuss both the bitter facade of apathy and the hopeless desperation that characterizes these men.
(I finally finished the book by the way!)
VIVA LA REPUBLIQUE!
Somebody said suicide
And then could we refuse?
There are many ways to die
And nothing left to lose.
So the fray is making noise,
It rains sometimes, what then?
And all of us are little boys
Pretending to be men.
We don’t think of surrendering
We die for liberty
The fact is, we are wandering
And so seem to be free.
To wander and to seem free
That is to be lost
And lost is bad enough in life
But worse when you’re a ghost.
Live in Hell, die in Hell
Tell me someone cared
We're so used to Hell by now
But GOD, we are so scared!
-B.J.J. aka StrongJoy
Seize The Day!
-StrongJoy
3 comments:
Once again, Miss Strong Joy, spot on! I love your poetry; you always write with a point and it always comes across. So glad you posted some more. Keep it coming!
~Meg at Spare Oom
B. J. J., his is so moving! & well written by you. :)
It fits very well. (Congrats on finishing the book; it's good isn't it?)
~Hannah, a.k.a Titmoss
Yikes... I missed this... It's good. :)
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