Adulterous Mixture Of Everything.(Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker
Adulterous Mixture Of Everything.(Translation) .
In America, I was a teacher;
In England, a journalist;
You will take long strides and sweat
To scarcely follow my tracks.
In Yorkshire, a lecturer;
You will put me down.
I get my hair cut in Paris
I bury myself under a black cap.
In Germany, I am a philosopher
Overexcited by Emporheben
In the open air of Bergsteigleben;
I always wander here and there
To different beats of tra la la
From Damascus to Omaha.
I celebrated my birthday
In an African oasis
Dressed in a giraffe skin.
They will show my memorial
On the burning hot slopes of Mozambique.
- ' Melange Adultere de Tout'.T.S. Eliot(1888-1965) .
The poem is partly autobiographical.T.S. Eliot studied and taught for a while in his native U.S.A., did some journalism in England, lecturing in Yorkshire, then worked in a London bank for most of the time. Others could put him down for moving from job to job, but they were all good, professional jobs. Eliot was interested in philosophy in Germany, and he earlier did his doctoral thesis at Harvard on F.H. Bradley, the English idealist philosopher.
The last lines are less connected to reality and more surrealist: he celebrated his birthday in African oasis wearing a giraffe skin.
One day someone will point out his grave-site on a burning hot hillside in Mozambique.
The poem is a successful mixture of facts and imagination-entertainment.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
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