The Life That I Have
- The Life That I Have
-
The Life That I Have est le titre d'un court poème écrit par Leo Marks pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et remis à Violette Szabo, agent secret du Special Operations Executive, juste avant son départ pour la France le 24 mars 1944, pour qu'il lui serve à chiffrer les messages secrets qu'elle enverrait.
Auparavant, c'est des poèmes célèbres que les agents du SOE utilisaient pour chiffrer les messages. Mais leur célébrité même constituait un élément d'insécurité, les cryptographes ennemis étant en mesure de déterminer l'original à partir des sources publiées. Leo Marks contra cet inconvénient en utilisant ses propres poèmes, par définition inconnus.
À l'origine, Leo Marks avait écrit le poème The Life That I Have au moment des fêtes de Noël 1943 en mémoire de son amie Ruth qui venait de mourir dans un accident d'avion au Canada.
En 1958, le poème fut rendu célèbre lorsqu'il fut utilisé dans le film Carve Her Name with Pride consacré à l'action de Violette Szabo.
Texte du poème
- The Life That I Have
- The life that I have
- Is all that I have
- And the life that I have
- Is yours
- The love that I have
- Of the life that I have
- Is yours and yours and yours
- A sleep I shall have
- A rest I shall have
- Yet death will be but a pause
- For the peace of my years
- In the long green grass
- Will be yours and yours
- and yours
Sources
Bibliographie
- (en)Leo Marks, Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's Story 1941-1945, HarperCollins, London, 1998, ISBN 0-00-255944-7.
- (en)Leo Marks, The Life That I Have, illus. par Elena Gaussen Marks, Souvenir, London, 1999, ISBN 0-285-63532-8, .
Sites
Wikimedia Foundation.
2010.
Contenu soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA. Source : Article The Life That I Have de Wikipédia en français (auteurs)
Regardez d'autres dictionnaires:
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp — theatrical poster Directed by Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger … Wikipedia
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman — … Wikipedia
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck — is a revisionist comic book story by Don Rosa about Scrooge McDuck.Originally, the story had twelve chapters totalling 212 pages. Since then, there have been additional chapters, and the original stories have also been slightly expanded and… … Wikipedia
The Life of Birds — Infobox nature documentary bgcolour = show name = The Life of Birds caption = The Life of Birds DVD cover picture format = 4:3 audio format = Stereo runtime = 50 minutes creator = developer = producer = executive producer = Mike Salisbury… … Wikipedia
The Life of Mammals — Infobox nature documentary bgcolour = show name = The Life of Mammals caption = The Life of Mammals DVD cover picture format = 16:9 audio format = Stereo runtime = 50 minutes creator = developer = producer = executive producer = Mike Salisbury… … Wikipedia
The Life of Riley — For other uses, see The Life of Riley (disambiguation). The Life of Riley, with William Bendix in the title role, is a popular American radio situation comedy series of the 1940s that was adapted into a 1949 feature film, a long run 1950s… … Wikipedia
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou — Steve Zissou redirects here. For the attorney, see Steve Zissou (jurist). The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Theatrical release poster Directed by Wes Anderson … Wikipedia
The Life of Oharu — Infobox Film name = The Life of Oharu caption = original Japanese movie poster made by Shintōhō imdb id = 0045112 writer = Kenji Mizoguchi Yoshikata Yoda starring = Kinuyo Tanaka Tsukie Matsuura Ichirô Sugai Toshirô Mifune Takashi Shimura… … Wikipedia
The Tie That Binds — Kent Haruf s [pronounced to rhyme with sheriff ] novel The Tie That Binds (1984), is the fictitious story of 80 year old Edith Goodnough of Holt County, Colorado, as told to an unnamed inquirer on a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 1977 by her… … Wikipedia
A Day in the Life — For other uses, see A Day in the Life (disambiguation). A Day in the Life Song by The Beatles from the album Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club … Wikipedia
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave — Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass … Wikipedia
