...that I wrote it, not after hearing these pieces, but after many visits to City Point. THE AQUARIUM Streaks of green and yellow iridescence. Silver shiftings, Rings veering out of rings, Silver — gold — With sharp white bubbles Shooting and dancing. Flinging quickly outward. Nosing the bubbles, Swallowing...

...fully thirty seconds To rest my brain with the suffusing, round brilliance of its globe. V AN AQUARIUM STREAKS of green and yellow iridescence, Silver shiftings,...scarcely tarnished twinklings. Curving of spotted spines, 9 Slow up-shifts, Lazy convolutions: Then a sudden swift straightening And darting below: Oblique grey...

...collaboration with an eminent scholar of Chinese. She is now publishing a Life of Keats. AN AQUARIUM * STREAKS of green and yellow iridescence, Silver shiftings,...twinklings. Curving of spotted spines, Slow up-shifts, * The poems by Amy Lowell are used by permission of, and special arrangement with, Houghton Mifllin...

...piling, passing, you never did see." l " Streaks of green and yellow iridescence, Silver shif tings, Rings veering out of rings, Silver — gold — Grey-green...bubbles Shooting and dancing. Flinging quickly outward. . . ." l Or this poem about an automobile — many automobiles. " I see great flashes where the far...

...poking, panting, punching, parrying, pulling, prodding, puking, piling, passing, you never did see." l "Streaks of green and yellow iridescence, Silver shiftings, Rings veering out of rings, Silver — gold — 1 Lowell, Amy, "The Bronze Horses," in Can Grande' s Castle. Grey-green opaqueness sliding down,...

...full thirty seconds To rest my brain with the suffering, round brilliance of its globe. AN AQUARIUM Streaks of green and yellow iridescence, Silver shiftings,...quickly outward. Nosing the bubbles, Swallowing them, Blue shadows against silver-saffron water, The light rippling over them In steel-bright tremors. Outspread...

...of green and yellow iridescence, Silver shiftings, Rings veering out of rings, Silver-goldGrey-green opaqueness sliding down, With sharp white bubbles...outward. Nosing the bubbles, Swallowing them, Fish. The length of line contracts with the syntax, until we get the subject noun, "Fish," in clean visual...

...and Ghosts, published on 18 October 1916. Lawrence quotes the opening of "An Aquarium" in his letter: Streaks of green and yellow iridescence Silver shiftings...rings Silver - gold Grey-green opaqueness sliding down (The Letters ofD H Lawrence. Ill, 31). Lawrence had earlier informed Amy Lowell that he considered...

..."An Aquarium", colours, forms and movements of fish are rendered as different facets of the aquarium ("Streaks of green and yellow iridescence, / Silver shiftings, / Rings veering out of rings," etc., CP 151). This depiction of the fish is "unrelated" or "external" in that they are not used as...

...enough. Of course, it seems to me this is a real a1l de sac of art. You can't get any further than 'Streaks of green and yellow iridescence Silver shiftings...rings Silver - gold Grey-green opaqueness sliding down'3 You see it is uttering pure sensation without concepts, which is what this futuristic art tries...