will have a broken jar
a small broken soul
with a great self-pity
“what will remain after us
will it be lovers' weeping
in a small dirty hotel
when wall-paper dawns”
[final lines from Zbigniew Herbert’s “Why the Classics,” Selected Poems, 1977, translated by Peter Dale Scott and Czeslaw Milosz]
1 comment:
I assume Herbert's referring here to the fin de siecle alienation of Eliot, et al.
An interesting thought that inspired this poem:
The Lure of Modernity
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