My Naked Lady Framed
My Naked Lady Framed - meaning Summary
Art Consumed as Desire
The poem shows a speaker confronting a framed, twilight nude whose simple presence outshines art forms like painting, music, and poetry. Unable to match her immediacy, those arts retreat while the speaker physically seizes and metaphorically consumes the image. The act—part tenderness, part voracity—collapses aesthetic admiration into intimate possession, mixing contradictory qualities (demure and ferocious, precise laziness) to suggest appetite, creation, and transgressive desire.
Read Complete Analysesmy naked lady framed in twilight is an accident whose niceness betters easily the intent of genius— painting wholly feels ashamed before this music,and poetry cannot go near because perfectly fearful. meanwhile these speak her wonderful But i(having in my arms caught the picture)hurry it slowly to my mouth,taste the accurate demure ferocious rhythm of precise laziness. Eat the price of an imaginable gesture exact warm unholy
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