The Faun
The Faun - fact Summary
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A brief dramatic address in which a speaker confronts a visitor found "sniffing and snoozling" among garden flowers. The speaker mocks the intruder as a capriped (goat-footed), calls on figures named Auster and Apeliota to witness the scene, and warns that the faun—a nervous, potentially harmless creature—will frighten itself if disturbed. The poem presents an abrupt, theatrical moment of mockery and caution.
Read Complete AnalysesHa! sir, I have seen you sniffing and snoozling about among my flowers. And what, pray, do you know about horticulture, you capriped? 'Come, Auster, come Apeliota, And see the faun in our garden. But if you move or speak This thing will run at you And scare itself to spasms.'
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