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Looking at Translation: Women's Fantasies

Find the translated words and phrases below within the poem, using the stanza numbers in the fourth column. What do you notice about their meanings and sounds, in French and in English? Put your notes and comments in the last column.

Then, add three additional words or phrases that seem to have interesting translations, and comment on those, too.

# French English Stanza Notes and Comments
1 exquise lovely 1
2 douce sweet 1
3 en douce folie while wildly insane 2
4 cela m’irrite I am dismayed 3
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