Albatre
Albatre - meaning Summary
A Portrait of Delicate Leisure
A brief, observational portrait that fixates on a woman draped in a white peignoir and the quiet domestic scene around her. Pound emphasizes her delicate, almost ornamental presence through comparisons to her small white dog and an evocation of Gautier, while the setting of a great chair and two idle candles frames her passivity and leisure. The poem presents aestheticized stillness and social intimacy in spare lines.
Read Complete AnalysesThis lady in the white bath-robe which she calls a peignoir, Is, for the time being, the mistress of my friend, And the delicate white feet of her little white dog Are not more delicate than she is, Nor would Gautier himself have despised their contrasts in whiteness As she sits in the great chair Between the two indolent candles.
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