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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 corrupting volcano
Last Line: Clinging to the virgin gossamer of desire
Subject(s): Desire
First Line: The marquis de sade has gone back inside the corrupting 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
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