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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A FAT LADY HEARS SHAKESPEARE AT THE CLUB, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She rustles in with sweep of many laces Last Line: Sighing with sentiment, she sits there, creaking. Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Dramatists; Obesity; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) | |||
She rustles in with sweep of many laces, Settles her skirts and leans back, stiffly proud, Watching her entrance on her rivals' faces, Finding her glasses, peers between the crowd To glimpse the man who struts there, heavy-browed; Her satin bosom heaves, well corseted. Murmuring her approbation half aloud, She sits and breathes in gasps till Hamlet's dead. "To be or not to be." The dark man glowers. . . . Her polished finger-tips toy with her beads; She dotes on sweet Ophelia, likes her weeds, And charming madness, babbling to flowers. So while the artist on the stage is speaking, Sighing with sentiment, she sits there, creaking. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 1. SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 2. SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL YOUR SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL TO AN ARTIST, TO TAKE HEART by LOUISE BOGAN THE SAVING WAY by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE EXPENSE OF SPIRIT by ALICE FULTON YOU KNOW WHAT PEOPLE SAY by JAMES GALVIN SHAKESPEARE'S GRAVE by ROBINSON JEFFERS AFTER READING SHAKESPERE by EDWIN MARKHAM THE ENAMEL GIRL by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD |
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