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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HOMAGE TO GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE, by FREDERIC SAUSER Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The bread is rising Last Line: And they all speak the language of apollinaire Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise | |||
The bread is rising France Paris An entire generation I address the poets who were there Friends Apollinaire is not dead You followed an empty hearse Apollinaire is a magus He's the one who was smiling in the silk of the flags at the windows He enjoyed throwing you flowers and wreaths While you walked behind the hearse Then he bought a little three-colored cockade I saw him that same night demonstrating on the boulevards He was astride the hood of an American truck and waving an enormous international flag spread out like an airplane LONG LIVE FRANCE The times change The years roll by like clouds The soldiers have gone back home To the houses Where they live And look a new generation is rising The dream of the BREASTS is coming true! Little French children, half English, half black, half Russian, a bit Belgian, Italian, Annamite, Czech One with a Canadian accent, another with Hindu eyes Teeth face bones joints lines smile bearing They all have something foreign about them and are still part of us Among them, Apollinaire, like that statue of the Niles, the father of the waters, stretched out with kids that flow all over him Between his feet, under his arms, in his beard They look like their father and go their own way And they all speak the language of Apollinaire | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MUSHROOM CITY by FREDERIC SAUSER THE MOCKING BIRD by FREDERIC SAUSER THE PHILOSOPHER by EMILY JANE BRONTE HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD by ROBERT BROWNING THE NATIONAL PAINTINGS: COL. TRUMBULL'S 'THE DECLARATION...' by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK ELEGIAC SONNET: 44. WRITTEN IN THE CHURCH YARD AT MIDDLETON IN SUSSEX by CHARLOTTE SMITH THE ARGONAUTS (ARGONATUICA): MEDEA'S PARTING WORDS by APOLLONIUS RHODIUS |
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