Art Explained By A Writer: En dreng hviler i skyggen af et bondehus
Know what
I've had it with her
Who says he didn't go get cigarettes?
I'm waiting here at my leisure
Oh sunshine
How hot
The earth under my bare feet.
Oh what!
What is she babbling on about
I wish I didn't hear her voice
But
Those nasty words
Pounding in my head
Your father left
Disappeared into thin air.
So what
Stop
Stupid rotten bitch!
It's all your fault
I wish you didn't exist
Shut up!
I won't listen to you
I'll stay outside
-Even if its forever-
Till my father comes to pick me up.
Marie Luplau - En dreng hviler i skyggen af et bondehus (1886)
And you?
You can sink in the mud or better
Put your feet in the soil
Be a tree
At least that way you're used
On a sunny, warm day
When someone wants to sit in the shade
Waiting
I'll wait, at least until night falls.
20.1.25
Painting: public domain
Mi apreciada amiga, en los primeros versos, noto que la "voz poética" decide esperar a una chica o a su madre, no me queda claro, que se marchó, supuestamente, porque iba a buscar cigarrillos.
En los otros versos, parece que quien se fue de casa fue el "padre de la voz poética". Esto no es de extrañar. Muchos padres se van y nos abandonan. Algunos esperamos sus regresos; y otros se burlan de estas esperas. ¿Será, acaso, esas voces de burla la que está representada en el desagradable mensaje del árbol, y por eso la "voz poética" lo manda a callar? ¿Cuántas veces hemos sentido el deseo de darle un puñetazo a personas que nos gritan verdades que no queremos escuchar? Jeje. Yo creo que si no fuera por los controles legales y sociales, ya me hubiese convertido en una asesina en serie, jeje.
Me encantó leerte. Un abrazo.
It's the angry boy standing outside scolding his mother because she said father is gone. He likes to believe that his father does as he says, going to buy the cigarettes (with us dads no longer say that most don't smoke and the cigarette machines are removed at least 20 years ago if not longer).
So that boy... all those voices and words he heard mixed with thoughts wishes his mother had left instead of his father or she would be a tree and useful. Useful... mother is not useful.. who told the boy his mother is not? We can say that words don't hurt but believe it does if it is said by your flesh and blood. I wonder how a mother feels while that angry boy stands outside. Perhaps it is better to be a tree.
Who knows the boy is right and his father will come back in twenty years or forty if he's old and suddenly remembers he had a family.
La traducción sigue traicionándome. Pero no estaba tan despistada. No sé qué es peor: Si aceptar que nuestros padres se han ido por voluntad propia o, en su lugar, buscar algunos culpables para justificar sus huidas.
Su traducción también ha dado una versión interesante, lo cual es bueno. No es fácil ser padre cuando la libertad llama...
🍀♥️
Ciertamente, creo que una de las cosas más difíciles de ser padre es luchar entre lo que exige la sociedad, y lo que realmente deseamos en nuestro interior, jeje.
This is so unapologetic!
It's crazy!
Imagine the boy calling his mother a bitch and then telling her to shut up. I don't need to know what the case may be, the son is going to have to take a lot in in an African society. 😂
You will be surprised what toddlers spit out at their parents! There was a time when it was promoted not to raise children but to let them experience and decide for themselves what is good and wrong. Hopefully, that time is over but if I see what is raised, the type of (young) adults I fear this is the result.
Your interpretation of the painting is quite unique and beautifully said 😉 oohh it's not interpretation but a story about what I see in the painting. Love it!
The Dutch version is better LOL I couldn't find the right words/translation to express how the boy feels but altogether it's realistic.Someone has to take the blame and being a tree isn't bad at all.
Thanks for your comment I love it.
It's interesting how artists like to be upvoted but are not promoting themselves or willing to support others. Let's see if anyone reads at all or if it's time to withdraw support.
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