Reading Memory and Desire in “La Figlia Che Piange”
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“La Figlia Che Piange,” one of the poems included in T. S. Eliot’s first volume of poetry, has attracted relatively meagre attention from critics, much less than, say, his early masterpiece “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” or “Portrait of a Lady.” The poem has often been noted for its beauty and lyricism, but the speaker’s destabilized presence deserves more discussion than it has received so far. “La Figlia Che Piange” presents a male speaker who (re)enacts and transforms his memory of a breakup in three verse paragraphs consisting of imperative, pluperfect subjunctive, and indicative sentences, respectively. As a poem of introspection, “La Figlia Che Piange” explores the speaker’s memory in grammatically complex ways, but the poem’s inward-turning eye discovers an unstable self as elsewhere in Eliot’s poetry. Nevertheless, all this is heuristic in discussing modern poetry and serves a good example of Wallace Stevens’s “poem of the mind in the act of finding / What will suffice.”
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“La Figlia Che Piange,” one of the poems included in T. S. Eliot’s first volume of poetry, has attracted relatively meagre attention from critics, much less than, say, his early masterpiece “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” or “Portrait of a Lady.” The poem has often been noted for its beauty and lyricism, but the speaker’s destabilized presence deserves more discussion than it has received so far. “La Figlia Che Piange” presents a male speaker who (re)enacts and transforms his memory of a breakup in three verse paragraphs consisting of imperative, pluperfect subjunctive, and indicative sentences, respectively. As a poem of introspection, “La Figlia Che Piange” explores the speaker’s memory in grammatically complex ways, but the poem’s inward-turning eye discovers an unstable self as elsewhere in Eliot’s poetry. Nevertheless, all this is heuristic in discussing modern poetry and serves a good example of Wallace Stevens’s “poem of the mind in the act of finding / What will suffice.”
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