The Garrett
The Garrett - meaning Summary
Pity and Waking Together
Pound’s short lyric contrasts social status with intimate life, urging sympathy for those "better off" while valuing friendship over servitude. The poem moves from wry social observation to a domestic, sensual moment at dawn. Morning imagery—light, coolness, and a dancerlike entrance—frames the speaker’s contentment in shared desire and the small happiness of waking together. It celebrates personal warmth as superior to material advantage.
Read Complete AnalysesCome, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember t hat the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. Come, let us pity the married and the unmarried. Dawn enters with little feet like a gilded Pavlova And I am near my desire. Nor has life in it aught better Than this hour of clear coolness t he hour of waking together.
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