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This 3 page paper is an explication and discussion of T.S. Eliot’s poem “Conversation Galante.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Eliots poems, "Conversation Galante." Discussion The poem is sarcastic and snide, as were many of Eliots works on women. The narrator of the poem is a character critics have called
Eliots "poet persona," not to be confused with Eliot himself. However, the poem seems to take so much from Eliots life that its easy to understand how readers can make
the mistake of believing that its Eliot, not his narrator speaking. The poem begins with the speaker calling his companions attention to the moon, or perhaps its not the
moon, but "Prester Johns balloon" or even a lantern of some sort (Eliot). She punctures all of his fantasies with the flat comment, "How you digress!" (Eliot). He then goes
on to explain that composers have often tried to show us the beauty of the night in their music; he mentions specifically an "exquisite nocturne" which explains the "night and
moonshine"; its possible hes referring to Beethovens "Moonlight Sonata" (Eliot). But he undercuts the meaning to be found in such compositions by saying that we listen to them because they
reflect our own "vacuity," a word meaning emptiness or pointlessness. That is, he apparently feels that even great musical works are silly, which is an odd remark. She picks up
on it and asks if hes referring to her as being vacuous and he says no, "it is I who am inane" (Eliot). The final stanza finds the narrator occupied
in describing his companion, using words like "humorist," "indifferent" and "imperious"; he calls her the "eternal enemy of the absolute" (Eliot). This might be taken to mean that he feels
that as a woman, she is unable to accept precise values; or perhaps hes saying (in a very obscure way) that she can never make up her mind. He is
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