Jean Rhys’ Original Poem in Voyage in the Dark
Curious if the poem in chapter V of Voyage in the Dark was allusive to other works, I google for some key terms. Surprisingly, I found none of them, leading me to believe that the following is original, created solely for the book, and unadapted:
‘Horse faces, faces like horses,
And grey streets, where old men wail unnoticed
Prayers to an ignoble God.’
There the butcher’s shop stinks to the leaden sky;
There the fish shop stinks differently, but worse.[…]
‘But where are they -
The cool arms, white as alabaster?’[…]
Loathsome London, vile and stinking hole …’
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