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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
APATHY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the empire at the end of its decadence Last Line: Nothing but a nameless boredom to afflict you. Subject(s): Apathy; France | |||
I am the Empire at the end of its decadence Watching the tall, fair Barbarians pass, Meanwhile, I compose idle acrostics In a golden style where the sun's languors dance. Intense boredom sickens a soul alone. Over there, I hear, a long bloody battle rages. Feeble with too slow desire, there is no power, There is no will to make this existence flower. There is no will, no power even to die a little. Ah, all is drunk, Bathyllus-do you laugh still? All, all is drunk, all eaten! No more to tell. Nothing but a stupid poem to throw on the fire, Nothing but a faithless slave to neglect you, Nothing but a nameless boredom to afflict you. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WHITE PEACOCK by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET ALMANACH DU PRINTEMPS VIVAROIS by HAYDEN CARRUTH LETTER TO YOUKI by ROBERT DESNOS ELEGIES FOR THE OCHER DEER ON THE WALLS AT LASCAUX by NORMAN DUBIE LE PERE-LACHAISE by CAROL ANN DUFFY ON TALK OF PEACE AT THIS TIME by ROBERT FROST TO GALLANT FRANCE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A FORGOTTEN TUNE by PAUL VERLAINE |
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