Izz Huett you darling
give up Angel Clare.
You know and I know
there's more in life to spare
than the cheap short-change of his ways
gentleman-john degrading angel-fool.
Take your pleasures elsewhere
not from his twisted purity school.
Fine mannered handsome cultivated upper-class men
nineteenth century Beatles.
Squealing ninny country girls now
never knowing how the deal goes...
after Tess is raped and
the narrator calls the man her lover
the wooden eared "Angel"
would not listen or bother
till dealt hands more like her's and
knowing he's her forever imaginary angel
hears her heart and "forgives" her.
They reunite from that angle.
Bless Tess of the d'Urbervilles with her passion,
though she was so gullible to it.
I just wish she would learn from
the freely sensible Izz Huett.
Started while residing on McBride St. or during my second stay at Milnor Ave, both in Syracuse, NY; 1992, aged 24 or 25.
The poem is about the novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. Everything in the poem from “never knowing how the deal goes…” on down was written very recently in this year of 2019. That last line used to be “I don’t believe it. I’m going to vomit” and ended the poem. How mature and inspired of me.
I consulted the Wikipedia article on the novel to help me finish the poem. But I would like to eventually extend the poem to be more fair to Thomas Hardy and the nuanced complexities of the plot. This extension would develop the theme of not knowing or managing how to stand firm or compromise well or have decent convictions demonstrated by the characters, Mr. Hardy, and myself. All of that related to dealing with passions, mores of the times, possible pressure from publishers, etc.
A bit of a plot spoiler coming up: Anyways Izz Huett is the least likely to get dragged into any of that it seems to me, though she would have betrayed her dear friend Tess to go off to Brazil with Angel (the cad!) given the chance (knowing he is married to Tess). But screw it; I’ll take Izz Huett. “Cliff Notes” from the poet on something not written.
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Writings By Erick Heins 