Impressions: Les Silhouettes, La Fuite de la Lune by Oscar Wilde
Impressions: Les Silhouettes, La Fuite de la Lune by Oscar Wilde

Impressions: Les Silhouettes, La Fuite de la Lune

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Impressions: Les Silhouettes, La Fuite de la Lune by Oscar Wilde

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Les Silhouettes is the first poem in his collection Impressions. The word “impression” has two meanings: an idea/opinion of something, or an imitation of something.
Either way, silhouettes tend to do both of those, hence the title.

The second part of Impressions is titled La Fuite de la Lune, which...

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Impressions: Les Silhouettes, La Fuite de la Lune Annotated

I
Les Silhouettes

The sea is flecked with bars of grey,
The dull dead wind is out of tune,
And like a withered leaf the moon
Is blown across the stormy bay.

Etched clear upon the pallid sand
Lies the black boat: a sailor boy
Clambers aboard in careless joy
With laughing face and gleaming hand.

And overhead the curlews cry,
Where through the dusky upland grass
The young brown-throated reapers pass,
Like silhouettes against the sky

II
La Fuite de la Lune

To outer senses there is peace,
A dreamy peace on either hand,
Deep silence in the shadowy land,
Deep silence where the shadows cease.
Save for a cry that echoes shrill
From some lone bird disconsolate;
A corncrake calling to its mate;
The answer from the misty hill.
And suddenly the moon withdraws
Her sickle from the lightening skies,
And to her sombre cavern flies,
Wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.

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