In the English part we read 2 poems by Robert Frost: Fire and Ice and Questioning Faces. Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. Questioning Faces The winter owl banked just in time to pass And save herself from breaking window glass. And her wings straining suddenly aspread Caught color from the last of evening red In a display of underdown and quill To glassed-in children at the window sill. As a follow-up, Alexander Belyaev translated these poems into Russian and wrote his commentaries to them http://yasashisa.livejournal.com/353044.html Some of the links we used: Fire and Ice recited by Frost and then someone else https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzU7_NiApvs http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44263 On Fire and Ice http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/frost/fireice.htm A blog entry on Questioning Faces http://randomnoodling.blogspot.ru/2013/06/poetry-friday-questioning-faces.html Frost Free Library http://www.frostfriends.org/library.html Иосиф Бродский. Скорбь и разум (1994) http://iosif-brodskiy.ru/proza-i-esse/skorb-i-razum.html
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Вероника Белькинд
3/17/2017 11:47:52
The poem as a whole could be understood as a picture of real life: children look through the window at an owl flying. However, it could also be an image of something else. I see it as a symbol of life, something beautiful and short. Images of life as something fast and brief are very common. The “glassed-in children” symbolize the beginning of life and the sundown is an image of the end of life. One more interesting thing is that the picture is a frozen moment which you can’t seize, and, in spite of its reality, it seems nearly impossible and magical. And the real world with astonished / exited children is separated from the magic world with the owl, winter and sundown (There is probably the idea that only children can see a part of the magic world in plain reality). The picture is catching a glimpse of a movement and because of this the object of the poem isn’t ‘fixed’ inside it.
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Elena
3/19/2017 01:10:46
Thank you for this comment, Veronika!
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