divague à l'âme

[fairelesinge]

mon esprit divague à l'âme

This is a play on the words vague à l'âme = melancholy

divaguer means to ramble

so my best attempt is "my mind roams melancholically"

is this what is meant or am I missing something?

thanks for any help

 

[Martyn94]

Can you give us more of the surrounding text , or what it's about (in poetry or in prose?)?

 

[fairelesinge]

It' prose, I can't really quote more as it's confidential, but it's a story about a man on a train, and this describes his state just before he sees something that changes his life

 

[snarkhunter]

... 'My mind is on a train of gloomy thought' ?

 

[Martyn94]

It' prose, I can't really quote more as it's confidential, but it's a story about a man on a train, and this describes his state just before he sees something that changes his life

That's a new one on me. If you say any more, I guess you have to kill us.

 

[Moon Palace]

If you say any more, I guess you have to kill us.

Indeed, it is new and scary . And I agree with Martyn, without more context, it will be very difficult to translate, all the more so as the French is abstruse and seems to have been written for the sole sake of the pun.