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MBaggio - Text analysis - Title and Layout - The Ignoble procession by D. H. Lawrence
by MBaggio - (2020-09-30)
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The ignoble procession - TEXT

When I see the ignoble procession
streaming forth from little doorways
citywards, in little rivers that swell to a great
stream,

of men in bowler hats, hurrying,
and a mingling of wallet-carrying women
hurrying, hurrying, legs going quick, quick, quick
in ignoble haste, for fear of being late –
I am filled with humiliation.

Their haste
is so
humiliating

 

The ignoble procession - ANALYSIS

Considering the title, i expect the text to be about a procession, that the writer finds ignoble, along the city streets. However, how can a procession be so terrible to be considered ignoble. I guess the cause of the procession can be something unpleasant to the poet. I imagine the writer looking at the procession through the window and getting angry, so he decides to write his disagree. Anyway, the why of the procession could be something humiliating for all the city.
The poem is divide in three strophes and has free verse. Therefore, we can understand the poem is a free though and not reasoned or programmed.