La Patisserie-Salon De The. (Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker
La Patisserie-Salon De The. (Translation) .
La jeune fille dans la patisserie-salon de the
N'est pas si belle qu'autrefois,
L'automne s'est use contre elle.
Elle ne monte pas l'escalier si vigoureusement;
Oui, elle aussi deviendra d'un certain age,
Et la lueur de la jeunesse qu'elle repandait autour de nous
Comme elle nous apportait nos muffins
Ne sera plus repandue autour de nous.
Elle deviendra aussi d'age moyen.
- ' The Tea Shop'. Ezra Pound (1885-1972) .
This straightforward poem is about a young girl who serves in a tea shop, which the poet and his friends frequent. The beautiful girl is starting to lose her good looks: she no longer goes up the stairs so energetically. One day, she will be middle-aged, a pity.
Pound described his own technique of making feelings more important than action and situation: ' To me, the short so-called dramatic lyric-at any rate the sort of thing I do-is the poetic art of a drama, the rest of which (to me the prose part) is left to the reader's imagination or implied or set in a short note. I catch the character I happen to be interested in at the moment he or she interests me, usually a moment of song, self-analysis, or sudden understanding or revelation.' From 'The Dramatic Monologue: Sympathy Versus Judgment', by Robert Langbaum in 'Robert Browning's Poetry', edited by James F. Loucks, p.516.
I think that 'The Tea Shop', is a very good example of what Pound is talking about.
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The Tea Shop The girl in the tea shop Is not so beautiful as she was, The August has worn against her. She does not get up the stairs so eagerly; Yes, she also will turn middle-aged, And the glow of youth that she spread about us As she brought us our muffins Will be spread about us no longer. She also will turn middle-aged. ' Ezra Pound Youthful exuberance can be invigorating to observe and it makes people feel young themselves in their presence. Yet all things must pass and this girl has aged to prove it.