Ladies and Gentlemen This Little Girl
Ladies and Gentlemen This Little Girl - meaning Summary
Performance and Fragility
The poem presents a performative snapshot of a young girl—polished, sexualized, and self-consciously performing for an audience—whose outward poise masks interior uncertainty. The speaker unsettles theatrical glamour with irony and ambiguity: the girl may have "dreamed" or merely "read," and her future alternates between staged flourish and oblivion. The closing simile, "like Coney Island in winter," suggests the desolation beneath spectacle and the fragility of youthful display.
Read Complete Analysesladies and gentlemen this little girl with the good teeth and small important breasts (is it the Frolic or the Century whirl? ones memory indignantly protests) this little dancer with the tightened eyes crisp ogling shoulders and the ripe quite too large lips always clenched faintly,wishes you with all her fragile might to not surmise she dreamed one afternoon ….or maybe read? of time a when the beautiful most of her (this here and This, do you get me?) will maybe dance and maybe sing and be absitively posolutely dead, like Coney Island in winter
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