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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TONE PICTURE (MALIPIERO: IMPRESSONI DAL VERO), by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the hot square, where the barbaric sun Last Line: Aloof and silent. Subject(s): Markets; Mystery; Sun; Supermarkets | |||
ACROSS the hot square, where the barbaric sun Pours coarse laughter on the crowds, Trumpets throw their loud nooses From corner to corner. Elephants, whose indifferent backs Heave with red lambrequins, Tigers with golden muzzles, Negresses, greased and turbaned in green and yellow, Weave and interweave in the merciless glare of noon. The sun flicks here and there like a throned tyrant, Snapping his whip. From amber platters, the smells ascend Of overripe peaches mingled with dust and heated oils. Pages in purple run madly about, Rolling their eyes and grinning with huge, frightened mouths. And from a high window -- a square of black velvet -- A haughty figure stands back in the shadow, Aloof and silent. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SUPERMARKET IN TEXAS by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL THE A & P by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT SELLING SPIEL ON MAXWELL STREET by CARL SANDBURG BLACK IS THE COLOR OF MY TRUE LOVE'S HAIR by REGINALD SHEPHERD A SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA by ALLEN GINSBERG TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A TRADE by EDWARD CARPENTER MADONNA OF THE MARKETPLACE by ETHEL TONRY CARPENTER A GHETTO CATCH by LELAND DAVIS IN THE LITTLE OLD MARKET-PLACE (TO THE MEMORY OF A.V.) by FORD MADOX FORD A SOLDIER LISTENS by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER |
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