NPPF Canto 1 Incest Motif

[Tim Strzechowski]

> (34) indoor scene
> (40) indoor scene
> (46) fold or furrow to displace/the fragile vista
> (55) White butterflies turn lavender as they/Pass through its shade
> (62) The stiff vane so often visited/By the naive
> (63) mockingbird/Retelling all the programs she had heard;
> (66) come here,/Come here, come herrr'; flirting her tail aloft
> (69) Upward hop-flop (seizure imagery at line *69*)
> (86) I was brought up by dear bizarre Aunt Maud,
> (87) A poet and a painter with a taste
> (103) And how my childish palate loved the taste
> (101)  but was I free?
> (106) The painted parchment papering our cage:(waxwing caged)
> (112) Reflects the rainbow of a thunderstorm (seizure image:
> aura/brainstorm)
> (113) Which in a distant valley has been staged (feigned remote vagina)
> (114) For we are most artistically caged (captive by artist, Maud)
> (147) That blackness was sublime.
> (149) one hand/Under the pebbles of a panting strand
> (153) There were dull throbs in my Triassic
> (155) An icy shiver down my Age of Stone
> (157) During one winter every afternoon (cf., winter's code)
> (161) But like some lad forced by a wench
> (162) With his pure tongue her abject thirst to quench,
> (163) I was corrupted, terrified allured,
> (166) The wonder lingers and the shame remains.
>
> Incest is the menace hidden, yet reflected, in the innocent imagery of a
> seizure.
>

While many of these instances might suggest sexual images out of context, I
guess I don't see how most of these can be equated with *incest* per se
((63) mockingbird/Retelling all the programs she had heard?????).

Keith, it's an interesting reading of the poem.  Can you tell us more,
though?  This "list" doesn't really argue the point, does it?

Respectfully,

Tim