Dream Song 4 by John Berryman
Dream Song 4 by John Berryman

Dream Song 4

John Berryman * Track #4 On The Dream Songs

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Dream Song 4 by John Berryman

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According to Modern American Poetry, poems describing women in such a vulgar way were unheard of when this poem was written.
It’s almost as if his mind and his heart are in completely different places as he admires her from across the room. His mind is thinking of her in a very sexual and degrading...

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Dream Song 4 Annotated

Filling her compact & delicious body
with chicken páprika, she glanced at me
twice.
Fainting with interest, I hungered back
and only the fact of her husband & four other people
kept me from springing on her

or falling at her little feet and crying
'You are the hottest one for years of night
Henry's dazed eyes
have enjoyed, Brilliance.' I advanced upon
(despairing) my spumoni. --Sir Bones:
is stuffed, de world, wif feeding girls.

--Black hair, complexion Latin, jewelled eyes
downcast . . . The slob beside her     feasts . . . What wonders is
she sitting on, over there?
The restaurant buzzes. She might as well be on Mars.
Where did it all go wrong? There ought to be a law against Henry.
--Mr. Bones: there is.

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