Classic and Contemporary Poetry
JOYCE'S ULYSSES, by MINA LOY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The normal monster Last Line: On the sub rosa -- -- -- Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. | ||||||||
The Normal Monster sings in the Green Sahara The voice and offal of the image of God make Celtic noises in these lyrical hells Hurricanes of reasoned musics reap the uncensored earth The loquent consciousness of living things pours in torrential languages The elderly colloquists the Spirit and the Flesh are out of tongue The Spirit is impaled upon the phallus Phoenix of Irish fires lighten the Occident with Ireland's wings flap pandemoniums of Olympian prose and satinize the imperial Rose of Gaelic perfumes - England the sadistic mother embraces Erin Master of meteoric idiom present The word made flesh and feeding upon itself with erudite fangs The sanguine introspection of the womb Don Juan of Judea upon a pilgrimage to the Libido The press purring its lullabies to sanity Christ capitalized scourging incontrite usurers of destiny in hole and corner temples And hang The soul's advertisements outside the ecclesiast's Zoo A gravid day spawns gutteral gargoyles upon the Tower of Babel Empyrean emporium where the rejector-recreator Joyce flashes the giant reflector on the sub rosa | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ITALIAN PICTURES: JULY IN VALLOMBROSA by MINA LOY ITALIAN PICTURES: THE COSTA SAN GIORGIO by MINA LOY LOVE SONGS TO JOANNES by MINA LOY THREE MOMENTS IN PARIS: 1. ONE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT by MINA LOY APOLOGY OF A GENIUS by MINA LOY STARRY SKY OF WYNDHAM LEWIS by MINA LOY |
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