God Pity Me
God Pity Me - meaning Summary
Playful Erotic Admiration
The poem depicts a speaker’s intense, playful erotic fascination with a lithe, androgynous beloved. Using jazz and dance imagery, the speaker traces physical and emotional responses—breathless admiration, aching desire, and astonishment—toward the beloved’s shifting, youthful body. The tone mixes tenderness and teasing eroticism, presenting desire as both exhilarating and destabilizing, expressed in compressed, urgent lines that mirror bodily movement and musical rhythm.
Read Complete Analysesgod pity me whom(god distinctly has) the weightless svelte drifting sexual feather of your shall i say body?follows truly through a dribbling moan of jazz whose arched occasional stepped youth swallows curvingly the keeness of my hips; or,your first twitch of crisp boy flesh dips my height in a firm fragile stinging weather, (breathless with sharp necessary lips)kid female cracksman of the nifty,ruffian-rogue, laughing body with wise breasts half-grown, lisping flesh quick to thread the fattish drone of I Want a Doll, wispish-agile feet with slid steps parting the tousle of saxophonic brogue.
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