This poem is taken from Stand 241, 22(1) March - May 2024.
Soirée
He was reading about pathos. The author said the teariness of men when they listen to
music is a want of deep emotion, an unconscious manifestation (to use the author’s words)
of atrophied feeling. He once saw his father cry, on the day of his aunt’s funeral, but never
in the upstairs drawing room at one of his parents’ musical evenings. Not that there was
reason for tears – mostly it was laughter, at jokes as well-mannered and inevitable as a boy
...
music is a want of deep emotion, an unconscious manifestation (to use the author’s words)
of atrophied feeling. He once saw his father cry, on the day of his aunt’s funeral, but never
in the upstairs drawing room at one of his parents’ musical evenings. Not that there was
reason for tears – mostly it was laughter, at jokes as well-mannered and inevitable as a boy
...
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