The Garden
En Robe De Parade. Samain
The Garden - meaning Summary
Bored Privilege and Decline
The speaker observes a pale, bored woman walking in Kensington Gardens whose emotional emptiness reads as social and biological decline. Around her are hardy, impoverished children described as unkillable and destined to inherit the earth, creating a contrast between decadent leisure and vital poverty. Her boredom is presented as terminal and isolating; she longs for conversation yet fears the speaker’ommitting the social breach of addressing her.
Read Complete AnalysesLike a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-meal Tof a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth. In her is the end of breeding. Her boredom is exquisite and excessive. She would like some one to speak to her, And is almost afraid that I Twill commit that indiscretion.
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