Re: Need help understanding poem

On 15 fév, 08:39, "robert365" <robertg...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello all,

I'm reading a poem by René Ghil, and I'm having trouble understanding
the sense of it.

I'm not surprised;-)

The stanza is:

Tout moderne, et voyant de nos modernes âmes,
Des soirs vieux, malgré lui, hors du Vrai, sans paphos
Où des déesses, il s'exile ! et, dans les gammes
Des azurs et des ors, et le nu des paros,
Mensonge et dieux il pleure, et Vous, ô pâles Ames !
Vagueuses Vierges, aux plis longs des longs peplos ! ....

In the first line, what does Ghil exactly mean by "voyant?"

Just our progressive 'seeing', So, roughly and not poetically,
"thoroughly modern and seeing with our modern eyes, in evenings [he is
(Man?)] old, far from truth, without 'paphos(?)

In the last line, what is meant by "vagueuses?"

Probably just 'wandering' as in the verbe 'divaguer'


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