The Arcades Project - Operi

without jealousy, sympathetic and remote, on the meal shared by mother and
son. The second poem evokes the image of the fatherless family situated not
around a table but around a grave. The sultriness of life pregnant with possibilities
has entirely yielded to the cool night air of death. [J7la,S]
TIle "Tableaux parisiens" begin with a transfiguration of the city. The first,
second, and, if you like, third poem of the cycle work together in this. "Pays age"
is the city's tte-a-tte with the sky. The only elements of the city to appear on the
poet's horizon are the "workshop full of singing and gossip, and the chinmey­
pots and steeples.""