Repetitions of a Young Captain
Repetitions of a Young Captain - meaning Summary
Reality Layered by Performance
The poem contrasts an external, remembered catastrophe with the immediate theatrical spectacle. A tempest and ruin once real become background to a new, staged reality; the audience remains passive as performance absorbs and reshapes experience. The actor’s gestures turn into feeling, and a moonlike figure joins him, suggesting how memory, imagination, and art transform or domesticate past trauma into a renewed, intimate scene.
Read Complete AnalysesA tempest cracked on the theatre. Quickly, The wind beat in the roof and half the walls. The ruin stood still in an external world. It had been real. It was something overseas That I remembered, something that I remembered Overseas, that stood in an external world. It had been real. It was not now. The rip Of the wind and the glittering were real now, In the spectacle of a new reality. II The people sat in the theatre, in the ruin, As if nothing had happened. The dim actor spoke. His hands became his feelings. His thick shape Issued thin seconds glibly gapering. Then faintly encrusted, a tissue of the moon Walked toward him on the stage and they embraced.
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