the moon and me

Why am I taking the topic 'moon'? Because I love it so much.

Since I was a kid, I've been adoring moon a lot. It's not just because I loved astronomy, it's more because the moon is so beautiful to be seen. Shiny, round, bright, surrounded by the dark blue night sky....

Based on my likeness to moon, maybe that caused me liking every thing about moon. Sailormoon, Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven), Clair de Lune (Debussy), Moon River (Henry Mancini)... I like them all. I also love seeing the moon in the night, whether it's full or just crescent moon.

Claire de Lune is my most favourite piece ever, and seems like it illustrates the moon perfectly for me. Composed by Claude Debussy, it is the third movements from the 'Suite Bergamasque'. Clair de Lune, named after a poem by Paul Verlaine's poem 'Clair de Lune', is the most popular above all movements. It is told that Debussy made the piece by having the poem in mind. Some sources told that Suite Bergamasque was composed during his period of study, then he revised the work before publishing it.

Anyway, let's try to read the poem (I'll write the English translation of the poem, since I don't understand French) while listening to the piece.

Clair de Lune

Your soul is a chosen landscape

Where charming masked and costumed figures go

Playing the lute and dancing and almost

Sad beneath their fantastic disguises

All sing in a minor key

Of all conquering love and careless fortune

They do not seem to believe in their happiness

And their song mingles with the moonlight

The still monlight, sad and beautiful

Which gives the birds to dream in the trees

And makes the fountain sprays sob in ecstasy

The tall, slender fountain sprays among the marble statues