Fall 2024 Winner | AFL Concours de performance audiovisuelle en français
Winning submission for the Fall 2024 Concours de performance audiovisuelle en français, sponsored by the Alliance Française de Louisville. This is a performance contest for high school and middle school students taking French in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. The prize presentation for the Fall 2024 Concours was submitted by three French students from Nicholasville, Kentucky. On November 11th, an award ceremony was held, presenting Madame Susini’s class with the grand prize of $500!
Teacher : Madame Jill Susini
Students : Izzy H., Aliza L., Reagan S.
School : Trinity Christian Academy
Poem Presented :
Le Dormeur du Val
Arthur Rimbaud
C’est un trou de verdure, où chante une rivière
Accrochant follement aux herbes des haillons
D’argent; où le soleil, de la montagne fière,
Luit: c’est un petit val qui mousse de rayons.
Un soldat jeune, bouche ouverte, tête nue,
Et la nuque baignant dans le frais cresson bleu,
Dort; il est étendu dans l’herbe, sous la nue,
Pâle dans son lit vert où la lumière pleut.
Les pieds dans les glaïeuls, il dort. Souriant comme
Sourirait un enfant malade, il fait un somme:
Nature, berce-le chaudement: il a froid.
Les parfums ne font pas frissonner sa narine;
Il dort dans le soleil, la main sur sa poitrine,
Tranquille. Il a deux trous rouges au côté droit.
The Sleeper of the Valley
Arthur Rimbaud
It’s a green hollow where a river sings
Clinging madly to the grasses with its rags
Of silver, where the sun, from the proud mountain,
Shines; it’s a little valley, bubbling with sunlight.
A young soldier, open-mouthed, bare-headed
And the nape of his neck bathing in cool blue watercress,
Sleeps; he’s stretched out in the grass, under the sky,
Pale in his green bed where the light falls like rain.
His feet in the gladiolas, he sleeps. Smiling as
a sick child would smile, he takes a nap.
Nature, cradle him warmly: he is cold.
No perfume makes his nostrils quiver;
He sleeps in the sun, hand on his chest,
Quiet. There are two red holes on his right side.