Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EFFECTUAL MARRIAGE OR THE INSIPID NARRATIVE, by MINA LOY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The door was an absurd thing Last Line: Having no vices Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. | ||||||||
The door was an absurd thing Yet it was passable They quotidienly passed through it It was this shape Gina and Miovanni who they were God knows v They knew it was important to them This being of who they were They were themselves Corporeally transcendentally consecutively conjunctively and they were quite complete In the evening they looked out of their two windows Miovanni out of his library window Gina from the kitchen window From among his pots and pans Where he so kindly kept her Where she so wisely busied herself Pots and Pans she cooked in them All sorts of sialagogues Some say that happy women are immaterial So here we might dispense with her Gina being a female But she was more than that Being an incipience a correlative v an instigation of the reaction of man From the palpable to the transcendent Mollescent irritant of his fantasy Gina had her use Being useful contentedly conscious She flowered in Empyrean From which no well-mated woman ever returns Sundays a warm light in the parlor From the gritty road on the white wall anybody could see it Shimmered a composite effigy Madonna crinolined a man hidden beneath her hoop Ho for the blue and red of her The silent eyelids of her The shiny smile of her Ding dong said the bell Miovanni Gina called Would it be fitting for you to tell the time for supper Pooh said Miovanni I am Outside time and space Patience said Gina is an attribute And she learned at any hour to offer The dish appropriately delectable What had Miovanni made of his ego In his library What had Gina wondered among the pots and pans One never asked the other So they the wise ones eat their suppers in peace Of what their peace consisted We cannot say Only that he was magnificently man She insignificantly a woman who understood Understanding what is that To Each his entity to others their idiosyncrasies to the free expansion v to the annexed their liberty To man his work To woman her love Succulent meals and an occasional caress So be it It so seldom is While Miovanni thought alone in the dark Gina supposed that peeping she might see A round light shining where his mind was She never opened the door Fearing that this might blind her Or even That she should see Nothing at all So while he thought She hung out of the window Watching for falling stars And when a star fell She wished that still Miovanni would love her to-morrow And as Miovanni Never gave any heed to the matter He did Gina was a woman Who wanted everything To be everything in woman Everything everyway at once Diurnally variegate v Miovanni always knew her She was Gina Gina who lent monogamy With her fluctuant aspirations A changeant consistency Unexpected intangibilities Miovanni remained Monumentally the same The same Miovanni If he had become anything else Gina's world would have been at an end Gina with no axis to revolve on Must have dwindled to a full stop In the mornings she dropped Cool crystals Through devotional fingers Saccharine for his cup And marketed With a Basket Trimmed with a red flannel flower When she was lazy She wrote a poem on the milk bill The first strophe Good morning The second Good night Something not too difficult to Learn by heart The scrubbed smell of the white-wood table Greasy cleanliness of the chopper board The coloured vegetables Intuited quality of flour Crickly sparks of straw-fanned charcoal Ranged themselves among her audacious happinesses Pet simplicities of her Universe Where circles were only round Having no vices. (This narrative halted when I learned that the house which inspired it was the home of a mad woman. -Forte dei Marmi) | 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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