"The Fire Sermon" Annotations
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==Charles Baudelaire== | ==Charles Baudelaire== | ||
| − | Allusion to [[“Des Sept Viellards” | + | Allusion to [[“Des Sept Viellards” from ''Les Fleurs du Mal'']] |
Unreal City | Unreal City | ||
Under the brown fog of a winter noon | Under the brown fog of a winter noon | ||
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| + | ==Walt Whitman== | ||
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| + | Allusion to [[“These I Singing in Spring” from ''Leaves of Grass'']] | ||
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| + | Unshaven, with a pocket full of currants | ||
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| + | ==Mythology: Tiresias== | ||
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| + | Allusion to the mythological story of Tiresias, a blind, wise Theban prophet who served seven years as a woman, causing him to be sympathetic to women’s issues. After expressing his belief that women enjoy sex more than men to Jupiter and Juno, Juno struck him blind, but Jupiter gave him the gift of prophecy and the lifespan of seven men. | ||
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| + | I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives, | ||
| + | Old man with wrinkled female breasts, can see | ||
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| + | I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs | ||
| + | Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest - | ||
| + | I too awaited the expected guest. | ||
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| + | (And I Tiresias have foresuffered all | ||
| + | Enacted on this same divan or bed; | ||
| + | I who have sat by Thebes below the wall | ||
| + | And walked among the lowest of the dead.) | ||
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| + | ==Robert Louis Stevenson== | ||
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| + | Allusion to [["Requiem"]] | ||
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| + | Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea , | ||
| + | The typist home at teatime | ||
