Life is the perfect school to learn about it and it's difficulties and dangers. But our fears always depend on the things we've been through. For this reason, there are many kind of fears, from the hairy and scary monster under every children's bed, to the essential fears, which refer to universal questions, such as Love and Death. These two, are most of the times reflected in poetry.
We fear of things we aren't able to understand, such as pain, badness...we are afraid of not reaching our expectatives. And also we fear everything that provoques and represents these things.
"To be or not to be" That's the question that makes Shakespeare’s Hamlet to himself, when he tries to choose between suffering the badness of life or facing the unreturnable death. He was afraid of both but, which fear was stronger? did he fear more death or pain? That's the base for the development of Hamlet.
I want to show you how everyone can stop and think about common things and find that we all have the ability to make ourselves questions moved by our apprehension: our fear of what's coming on, the uncertainty of the repercussions of our acts...Many times, we also make decisions based on our fears.
This time, I wanted the poem I chose to belong to a very known poet: Pablo Neruda.
I'm afraid that the original poem is in Spanish and that I've had to translate it by myself, so I hope it is readable ( I put the original version in black, and the translation, in red):
Tengo miedo. La tarde es gris y la tristeza-----------I fear. The evening is gray and the sky's sadness
del cielo se abre como una boca de muerto.---------opens like a dead person's mouth.
Tiene mi corazón un llanto de princesa---------------My heart has some kind of a forgotten princess'
olvidada en el fondo de un palacio desierto.---------crying in the profoundity of a deserted palace.
Tengo miedo -Y me siento tan cansado y pequeño---I'm afraid -and I feel so tired and small
que reflojo la tarde sin meditar en ella.---------------that I live trough the evening without noticing it.
(En mi cabeza enferma no ha de caber un sueño-----(In my ill head there's no place for a dream
así como en el cielo no ha cabido una estrella.)------the same way that in sky there hasn't been place for a star.)
Sin embargo en mis ojos una pregunta existe---------However in my eyes lies a question
y hay un grito en mi boca que mi boca no grita.------and there's a scream in my mouth that my mouth isn't able to scream.
¡No hay oído en la tierra que oiga mi queja triste----There's no one in earth to hear my sad cry
abandonada en medio de la tierra infinita!-----------abbandoned in the center of an infinite land!
Se muere el universo de una calma agonía-----------Universe dies because of a calmed agony
sin la fiesta del Sol o el crepúsculo verde.-----------without the sun party or the green sunset.
Agoniza Saturno como una pena mía,---------------Saturn agonizes as my sadness.
la Tierra es una fruta negra que el cielo muerde.-----Earth is a black fruit that the sky bites.
Y por la vastedad del vacío van ciegas--------------And trough the infinity they go blind,
las nubes de la tarde, como barcas perdidas---------the evening clouds, as loosed boats
que escondieran estrellas rotas en sus bodegas.-----which hided broken stars inside their lowerfloor.
Y la muerte del mundo cae sobre mi vida.-----------And the world's death falls over my life.
The explanation this post's title is mainly the fact that my imagination tricks me and makes me think of those things I tremble to think about. Does this happen to you, or did it ever?
Me myself, I'm afraid of bad bugs, bad people and bad decisions. Also of submarines and the Mc Donald's Play-Place, where I once was about to get stuck. Here, in confidence, I'll confess my biggest fear is the crocodile that lives under my bed. ( ' just kidding).
Don't let the fear interfere! (That was mine)
(And don't forget to leave your comments below!)
-Boo! – Kitty?! (from Monsters Inc, by Pixar animating studios; sorry for this intromission in the cinema section: couldn't resist it)
Pilar
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