Act IV, Scene VI: The Tephromancer's Columbarium

[jeff harrison]

IN THE MIDDLE OF THINGS (where else?): 


"sweeter from me," weepst her Jove, "is the rose blowzy 
in the lulled snow" 



Sainte-Beuve: 

"blowzy rose" means a rose open fully, where it's heavy 
and slightly ratty-looking, "lulled snow" means snow that is 
no longer cold. "a blanket of snow" in the absolute sense... 
as for the rest, "woodland, ashes" means "the rays" 



Hippolyte Taine: 

dewy am'rous false time where, ever fresh, the rose toils 
slumb'ring 



Sainte-Beuve: 

the " ' " of "slumb'ring" is the hiding place of v, a, & the eyes 
(as in, "as for the rest, 'woodland, ashes' means 'the rays' ") 
of Virginia, with "ring" being the rest of the letters, anachronos, 
the letters of that dewy am'rous octinomos who, crowned 



IN THE MIDDLE OF THINGS (where else?): 

dewy am'rous false time where, ever fresh, the rose toils 
slumb'ring & crowned, slumb'ring, crowned, & tumbled... 
tumbled by the tread of a million hours, the rose toils to 


shine as grains of ash (other roses 
look polished as if suddenly, as 



Sainte-Beuve: 

look polished as if suddenly, as if they 



Hippolyte Taine: 

look polished as if suddenly, as tho they 



IN THE MIDDLE OF THINGS (where else?): 

polished roses (polished as if suddenly, as 
they were lately called upon to pronounce 
a funeral oration), polished roses, lilies that have 
never turned a single dishonest penny, these 
roses are any time's midpoints, tho they cannot lift 
their heads to rest in my arms 


		
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