English ‘hope' Poem by Douglas Scotney
English ‘hope'
‘Spērāre' from Rome
combines with its ‘no'
to give us our word ‘despair'.
‘Hoffen' from German
gives us ‘hope'—
we have no love for ‘spair'.
‘Dreamer' from English
(or did it too come from there?)
we prefer for ‘one who hopes':
notwithstanding ‘no-hoper' and ‘desperado',
‘hoper' lacks irony,
and anyone who dares ‘sperado'
hears ‘No'.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: language
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
after reading Baudelaire's 'Le Portrait',
and thinking how hope doesn't want to know despair.
and thinking how hope doesn't want to know despair.
READ THIS POEM IN OTHER LANGUAGES
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/26/2024 5:30:56 PM # 1.0.0.1119
Information giver yet last the concluding notwithstanding ‘no-hoper' and ‘desperado', ‘hoper' lacks irony, and anyone who dares ‘sperado' hears ‘No'. very lovely