Comete
Comete - meaning Summary
Hair as Comet-trail
The poem observes a woman walking through Melbourne whose long hair dominates the scene. The speaker likens the hair to a comet or unscrolling title: visually splendid, mobile, and almost independent of the body it adorns. The hair draws attention without revealing inner feelings; it is both a generous display and a separate presence that lingers in the observer’s mind, emphasising surface, movement, and radiance.
Read Complete AnalysesUphill in Melbourne on a beautiful day a woman is walking ahead of her hair. Like teak oiled soft to fracture and sway it hung to her heels and seconded her as a pencilled retinue, an unscrolling title to ploughland, edged with ripe rows of dress, a sheathed wing that couldn't fly her at all, only itself, loosely, and her spirits. A largesse of life and self, brushed all calm and out, its abstracted attempts on her mouth weren't seen, not its showering, its tenting. Just the detail that swam in its flow-lines, glossing about-- as she paced on, comet-like, face to the sun.
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