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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
UNKNOWN SHORES, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Okay, my starsick beauty %blue jeans and tilting breasts Last Line: I do not know of such! %but come, where will you go? Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Travel | |||
Okay, my starsick beauty! - blue jeans and tilting breasts, child of Canaverel - where would you like to go? Shall we set course for Mars, or Venus; green sea, Aldebaran the golden, or Tycho Brahe's Nova, the moons of Sagitta, or Vega's colonies? School-minching, bronze Diane, bane of the launching-pads- may not ask again: wherever you would go my rocket-head can turn at will to your command- top luck the flowers of snow that growon Pluto, or capella-wards, to pluck roots of asphodel? I may not ask again: where would you like to go? Have you a star; she says, O any faithful sun Where love does not eclipse? The countdown slurs and slips). -Ah child, if that star shines, is in chartless skies, I do not know of such! But come, where will you go? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RICHARD, WHAT'S THAT NOISE? by RICHARD HOWARD LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL by RICHARD BLANCO RIVERS INTO SEAS by LYNDA HULL DESTINATIONS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT by RANDALL JARRELL THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH by DENIS JOHNSON SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES by WELDON KEES WHERE THE TRACK VANISHES by GALWAY KINNELL |
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