Living
The Re-echo Club: as by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Cubist Nude)
From The Re-echo Club
The picture's done! And the staircase
Falls like the crash of night.
And the Nude is wafted downward
Like a catapult in flight.
There's a feeling of strange emotion
That is not akin to art;
And resembles a picture only
As a Tartar resembles a tart.
Such art has power to rouse
Our laughter at any time,
And comes like electrocution
That follows after crime.
Codex Note
A parody by Carolyn Wells, written in the manner of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as a contribution to the imagined Re-Echo Club (Cubist Nude).
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MLA
Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Cubist Nude).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/320/.
Chicago
Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Cubist Nude).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/320/.
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