Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MASS-PRODUCTION ON 14TH STREET, by MINA LOY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ocean in flower Last Line: The mannequin's harlequins Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. | ||||||||
Ocean in flower of closing hour Pedestrian ocean of whose undertow, the rosy scissors of hosiery snip space to a triangular racing lace in an iris circus of Industry. As a commodious bee the eye gathers the infinite facets of the unique unlikeness of faces; the diamond flesh of adolescence sloping toward perception: flower over flower, corollas of complexion craning from hanging-gardens of the garment-worker. All this Eros' produce dressed in audacious fuschia, orgies of orchid or dented dandelion among a foliage of mass-production: carnations tossed at a carnal caravan for Carnevale. v The consumer, the statue of a daisy in her hair jostles her auxiliary creator the sempstress-on her hip a tulip- horticulture of her hand-labor. From the conservatories of commerce' long glass aisles, idols of style project a chic paralysis through mirrored opals imaging the cyclamen and azure of their mobile simulacra's v tidal passing; while an ironic furrier, in the air, combines the live and static Femina of the thoroughfare; a windowed carousel of girls revolving idly in an unconcern of walking dolls letting their little wrists from under the short furs of summer, jolt to their robot turn. Now, in the sedative descent of dusk the street returns to stone; alone two lovers, crushed together in their sweet conjecture as to Fashion's humour, point at the ecru and ivory replica of the dress she has on, doused in a reservoir of ruby neon; only - - her buttons are clothespins the mannequin's, harlequins. | 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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