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Article: Parrot's Eye: a portrait by Manet and two by T. S. Eliot.(Edouard Manet )
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- Twentieth Century Literature
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- June 22, 2006
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T. S. Eliot's little-known sonnet "On a Portrait" (1909) describes a painting by Edouard Manet from 1866, Woman with a Parrot. The significance of this connection has not been examined, nor has the further association of Manet's painting with Eliot's "Portrait of a Lady," another portrait of a woman with a parrot. These poems examine the peculiar inscrutability that observers of Manet's portrait have long remarked. Eliot's poems consider two possible meanings for the blank look on her face: either she is concealing her thoughts from us, or she is mentally absent. While "On a Portrait" considers both possibilities, "Portrait of a Lady" pursues the implications of the second ...
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