"My memories simply trooped the colour."
— Cummings, Bruce Frederick [pseud. W. N. P. Barbellion] (1889-1919)
Work Title
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
George H. Doran and Co.
Date
1919
Metaphor
"My memories simply trooped the colour."
Metaphor in Context
March 3.
I often sit in my room at the B. M. and look out at the traffic with a glassy, mesmerised face--a fainéant. How different from that extremely busy youth who came to London in 1912. Say--could that lad be I? How many hours do I waste day-dreaming. This morning I dreamed and dreamed and could not stop dreaming--I had not the will to shake myself down to my task. ... My memories simply trooped the colour.
(pp. 178-9)
(pp. 178-9)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
W. N. P. Barbellion, The Journal of a Disappointed Man (New York: George H. Doran and Co., 1919). <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
01/05/2017
