We can't discuss the Bridge of Sighs without hearing from Thomas Hood's
poem. The she has just jumped.
Make no deep scrutiny
Into her mutiny
Rash and undutiful:
Past all dishonour,
Death has left on her
Only the beautiful.
Still, for all slips of hers,
One of Eve's family
Wipe those poor lips of hers
Oozing so clammily. [The Bridge of Sighs, 21-30.]
It may be the most awful and utterly delightful poem in English. EAPope
has written criticism of the poem that matches it in being bizarre and
pleasing.
Marcia
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