All you need is love

San Valentín es una excusa para que os recomendemos revisar clásicos del romanticismo inglés, ya sea en libro o en peli. Este año os recomendaremos una revisión del clásico romántico de Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre. Se trata de la última adaptación cinematográfica de Cary Fukunaga. Nuestra favorita hasta el momento, con un soberbio señor Rochester interpretado por Michael Fassbender. Los paisajes son espectaculares e inhóspitos y retrata muy bien el ambiente típico del romanticismo trágico y melancólico de las hermanas Brontë. Aprovechad para hablarle a los chicos de este periodo de la literatura inglesa y de como sus autores fueron un referente para romanticismo español, algo más tardío. Habladles del romanticismo gótico, de Shelley, de Byron, de Poe, de las pinturas de Turner, del impresionismo. De cómo autores contemporáneos que conocen bien beben de esos autores, Tim Burton, por ejemplo. Y llevadles un poema de amor ya sea del gran Shakespeare, de Byron, de Poe o simplemente una canción. Los chicos os lo agradecerán.

By Shakespeare

Sonnet XL

Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all; 

What hast thou then more than thou hadst before? 

No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call; 

All mine was thine before thou hadst this more. 

Then if for my love thou my love receivest, 

I cannot blame thee for my love thou usest; 

But yet be blamed, if thou thyself deceivest 

By wilful taste of what thyself refusest. 

I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief, 

Although thou steal thee all my poverty; 

And yet, love knows, it is a greater grief 

To bear love's wrong than hate's known injury. 

Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows, 

Kill me with spites; yet we must not be foes.

By Lord Byron

She walks in beauty, like the night

   Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that’s best of dark and bright

   Meet in her aspect and her eyes;

Thus mellowed to that tender light

   Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,

   Had half impaired the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress,

   Or softly lightens o’er her face;

Where thoughts serenely sweet express,

   How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,

   So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,

The smiles that win, the tints that glow,

   But tell of days in goodness spent,

A mind at peace with all below,

   A heart whose love is innocent!

By Poe

Annabel Lee

It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of ANNABEL LEE;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,

In this kingdom by the sea;

But we loved with a love that was more than love-

I and my Annabel Lee;

With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven

Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,

In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

My beautiful Annabel Lee;

So that her highborn kinsman came

And bore her away from me,

To shut her up in a sepulchre

In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,

Went envying her and me-

Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,

In this kingdom by the sea)

That the wind came out of the cloud by night,

Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love

Of those who were older than we-

Of many far wiser than we-

And neither the angels in heaven above,

Nor the demons down under the sea,

Can ever dissever my soul from the soul

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side

Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,

In the sepulchre there by the sea,

In her tomb by the sounding sea. 

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[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]

BY E. E. CUMMINGS

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in

my heart)i am never without it(anywhere

i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done

by only me is your doing,my darling)

i fear

no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want

no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)

and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows

higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

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