2015-03-20 Communication: love proverbs and poems

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: p. 29 part 2a - figure out which words come (recently) from French, and what they mean
1 faux pas = a social mistake
2 deja vu = when you feel like a situation has happened before
3 avant-garde = cutting-edge, unusual, new, experimental
4 entrepreneur = someone who starts and owns a business
5 cliche = stereotypical, unoriginal, typical
6 bouquet = a large bunch of flowers together
7 fiance = the man someone is going to marry
  fiancee = the woman someone is going to marry

girlfriend -> fiancee -> bride -> wife -> ex-wife / late wife / widow
boyfriend -> fiance -> groom -> husband -> ex-husband / late husband / widower
		(= roles at the wedding)		("late" = "dead")
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1 Love is blind.
  = When you love someone you don't notice their faults.
2 The course of true love never did run smooth.
  = The process of truly loving someone is never without problems.
3 All the world loves a lover.
  = If you are a loving person, everyone will love you.
4 Cold hands, warm heart.
  = People who have cold hands are probably friendly and warm-hearted.
5 All's fair in love and war.
  = People will do pretty crazy things for both love and war.
6 The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
  = You can get a man to love you if you are a good cook.
7 Marry in haste, repent at liesure.
  = If you get married too quickly, you'll have plenty of time to realize your mistake.
8 Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
  = Even if you lost your love, it's good that you had that experience (and it's better than if you never loved anyone).
9 A little of what you fancy does you good.
  = It's okay to indulge a little bit in things you enjoy.
10 Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
   = Being away from your partner makes you appreciate and love that person more.
11 Familiarity breeds contempt.
   = Constantly being with someone causes bad feelings.
part 2
2 A little of what you fancy does you good. ("one more drink", for example)
3 The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
4 Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
5 Love is blind.
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The last lines of a sonnet rhyme in pairs: day/May, temperate/date
Every line has five strong syllables and five weak syllables.
weak STRONG weak STRONG weak STRONG weak STRONG weak STRONG

Sonnet 18 - William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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ye are / thou art
I have / he hath / thou hast
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Sonnet 130 - William Shakespeare

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
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"the honeymoon phase" = the time right after something begins when everything seems wonderful and perfect
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Homework: find a love poem in your language, be prepared to explain it (who wrote it, what is it comparing the other person to, etc.)