Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Senare delen - XXII. Poes amerikanska efterföljare - Bret Harte parodierar Ulalume
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
316
Helt naturligt har Poes egenartade lyrik icke kunnat
undgå att bli utsatt för den karikering, som är berömd-
hetens avigsida. Den bästa amerikanska karikatyren har
Bret Hart presterat i The Willows, som parodierar Ulalume,
vars versform i förenklad gestalt f. ö. flerstädes återfinnes
hos denne diktare:
The skies they were åslien and sober,
The streets they were dirty and drear,
It was night in the mournful October,
Of my most immemorial year;
Like the skies I was perfectly sober,
As I stopped at the manshion of Shear, —
At the Nightingale, — perfectly sober.
And the willowy woodland, down here.
Here once in an alley Titanic
Of ten-pins, — I roamed with my soul, —
Of ten-pins, — with Mary, my soul:
They were days when my heart was volcanic,
And impelled me to frequently roll,
And made me resistlessly roll.
Till my ten-strikes created a panic
In the realms of the Boreal pole.
Till my ten-strikes created a panic
With the monkey atop of his pole, etc.
I
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
