William Bouguereau, French
“This Is Going To Sound Like a Line, But…Has Anyone Ever Told You You Have Beautiful Eardrums?,” 1872
Oil on canvas
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/// At her spinning wheel she took a seat
by the window, where they’d planned to meet.
The Proposal he speaks,
but that’s not all he seeks.
Yet again, Faust beguiles Marguerite.
/// Some suspect that this painting portrays
Goethe’s couple as, on her, he preys.
She’d been pure and devout
until he asked her out
for a series of hot matinees.
/// For this youth, Marguerite’s feeling pangs
of desire fueled by lengthy harangues
Mephistopheles gave.
Now she’s Faust’s willing slave,
and ignores that he cuts his own bangs.
/// Here, she’s spinning flax fibers to thread,
which may symbolize ill fate ahead.
The short strand of her life
will not make her Faust’s wife,
instead she and her kin are soon dead.