The poet describes Venus walking upon the lava fields of Etna, comparing the heat with his passion, as the "pomegranates burst and murmur with bees."
The poet describes Venus walking upon the lava fields of Etna, comparing the heat with his passion, as the "pomegranates burst and murmur with bees." He also describes his breast, "though proofless, still attests a bite / Mysterious due to some august tooth." Beginning by contemplating some nymphs the poet would perpetuate, he wonders whether it was a dream he loved before scattering the sound coming from his pipes "in a waterless shower" and opting to open his mouth "to wine's potent star" and succumb to sleep. FTP, identify this Symbolist poem describing the forest revelries of a woodland creature, written by Stephan Mallarme that later inspired a musical work by Debussy.
The poet describes Venus walking upon the lava fields of Etna, comparing the heat with his passion, as the "pomegranates burst and murmur with bees."
The Afternoon of a Faun