La Lodge and Entr'acte

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Katrina Duncan                               Thursday, 03 April 2008

La lodge and Entr’acte

I think that the poem entr’acte describes the painting very well.  It brings across the feelings of the two people in it in a very good and sensitive way.

Firstly the title of the poem –‘entr’acte’ makes the poem sound elegant and impressive, or even sophisticated.  The title means in between acts which describes the painting very well because she is just sitting there and he has his eyes on things completely away from the stage.  Entr’acte also sounds a bit like ‘attract’ so maybe that has something to do with it.

At the start of the poem it says ‘the cuff links whispers to the glove, such elegance and all for love’ I think in These lines the man speaking and he is saying to himself how elegant he is in his suit, (maybe he is being vain) and he how has done it all for love, maybe the love of the woman sitting in front of him or maybe the women he is looking at through his binoculars.

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Then in the second stanza ‘the glove confesses to the glass, oh how slowly five acts pass.’ I think that it is the woman speaking about herself and how slowly five acts pass.  Maybe the five acts pass slowly because she is not interested in the performance and is bored or maybe it is because she is waiting for the end so she can get away and do something else.

In the first line of the third stanza, ‘the glass is lifted to the eye’ I think this maybe the poet speaking, doing a running commentary of what is going ...

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