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Chantecler 139
claim the truth, to call forth the golden glory of
the day.
The pheasant hen is the eternal female, bewitch-
ingly beautiful, but self-centered and vain. True
to her destiny, she must possess the man and is
jealous of everything that stands between her and
him she loves. She therefore employs every de
vice to kill Chantecler s faith in himself, for, as
she tells him,
"
You can be all in all to me, but
nothing to the dawn."
The blackbird is the modernist who has become
blase, mentally and spiritually empty. He is a
cynic and scoffer; without principle or sincerity
himself, he sees only small and petty intentions in
everybody else.
Patou, true and stanch, is the symbol of honest
conviction and simplicity of soul. He loathes the
blackbird because he sees in him the embodiment
of a shallow, superficial modernity, a modernity
barren of all poetic vision, which aims only at ma
terial success and tinseled display, without regard
for worth, harmony or peace.
The peacock is the overbearing, conceited, in
tellectual charlatan; the spokesman of our present-
day culture ; the idle prater of
"
art for art s sake."
As such he sets the style and pace for the idle
pursuits of an idle class.
The guinea hen is none other than our most
illustrious society lady. Sterile of mind and empty
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