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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THREE MOMENTS IN PARIS: 1. ONE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT, by MINA LOY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though you have never possessed me Last Line: Wants to go to bed Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Paris, France; Women | |||
Though you have never possessed me I have belonged to you since the beginning of time And sleepily I sit on your chair beside you Leaning against your shoulder And your careless arm across my back gesticulates As your indisputable male voice roars Through my brain and my body Arguing "Dynamic Decomposition" Of which I understand nothing Sleepily And the only less male voice of your brother pugilist of the intellect Booms as it seems to me so sleepy Across an interval of a thousand miles An interim of a thousand years But you who make more noise than any other man in the world when you clear your throat Deafening - wake me And I catch the thread of the argument Immediately assuming my personal mental attitude And cease to be a woman. Beautiful halfhour of being a mere woman The animal woman Understanding nothing of man But mastery and the security of imparted physical heat Indifferent to cerebral gymnastics Or regarding them as the self-indulgent play of children Or the thunder of alien gods But you wake me up Anyhow who am I that I should criticize Your theories of "Plastic Velocity" "Let us go home she is tired and Wants to go to bed | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARISTOTLE TO PHYLLIS by JOHN HOLLANDER A WOMAN'S DELUSION by SUSAN HOWE JULIA TUTWILER STATE PRISON FOR WOMEN by ANDREW HUDGINS THE WOMEN ON CYTHAERON by ROBINSON JEFFERS TOMORROW by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD LADIES FOR DINNER, SAIPAN by KENNETH KOCH GOODBYE TO TOLERANCE by DENISE LEVERTOV ITALIAN PICTURES: COSTA MAGIC by MINA LOY |
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