Le Miroir Brisé
Le Miroir Brisé is a poem by Jacques Prévert about the innocence of the younger self. That when you a child the world looks completely different, kids see the world through this perspective of innocents, while adults see the world for what they believe it to be a hard and cold place. Children have this wonderful innocents, they see the world I a different light, it is not the heavy stresses of surviving and providing weighing them down most of the time. In the poem, Jacques Prévert tells the story of a younger version of himself, loosing that innocents to pain, loss, and the fact that sometimes life and others are cruel. Prévert describes this in this line, “Le petit homme qui chantait sans cesse, Le petit homme qui dansait dans ma tête, le petit homme de la jeunesse, a cassé son lacet de soulier” which translates over to “The little man who sang without ceasing, the little man who danced in my head, the little man of youth, broke his shoelace” (Prévert, 1-4).
Le Miroir Brisé by Jacques Prévert
