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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MARQUIS DE SADE REGAINED THE INTERIOR OF ... VOLCANO, by ANDRE BRETON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The marquis de sade has gone back inside the erupting volcano Last Line: Clinging to the virgin gossamer of desire Subject(s): Desire | |||
The Marquis de Sade has gone back inside the erupting volcano That he'd come from With his beautiful hands still fringed His girlish eyes And that every-?man-?for-?himself intellect which was His alone But from his phosphorescent study with its lamps of viscera He hasn't stopped flinging the mysterious commands That crack open the darkness of morality It's through that crack I see The great creaking shadows the old mined-?out husk Dissolve So that I can love you The way the first man loved the first woman In total freedom The freedom For which fire itself became man For which the Marquis de Sade defied the centuries with his great abstract trees Of tragic acrobats Clinging to the Virgin gossamer of desire | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AMERICAN WEDDING by ESSEX HEMPHILL HISTORY OF DESIRE by TONY HOAGLAND ARISTOTLE TO PHYLLIS by JOHN HOLLANDER |
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