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Show THIS SBS.IS&KMI2NT IN AVOMISN'S rbETRY. iY ' (Ffsank Patterson in Los Angeles .XJ ;l Graphic:) .4l" Parjs", July 5. I havo been reading read-ing oaoW book .on French poetry entitled en-titled iOLoa Xanicteros de la Poesio Contomporanol' . (The Charaetoristies of Contemporary Poetry), by Alphonso SecliL.;liic1T JC yan strongly, recom-meptia recom-meptia njiybfldy who is Interested -in FrooUvlitijraturo .in ..pjirtlcular and tho progress of women in general. For this tfi$fy)a,rio only takes up tho general subject o? j-coimt poetry, Jut gives an excollonl resume of tho.dlfferenco whicnjffahmHy exists between poetry uy itJ'Jhd poetry by jnen. jltviU surprlsost of my readers, no doubt, as itytMifsed me, to learn, that there is suohj-amifference, at least, that sugh a diffj-J so marked that It can , bo dofined and rjjgordo,d.- I havq ofon,.. wondered, in readlncr the ordinary run of English and Amoilcan lltogatyre, at thostrpngpsembjanco-betwoop tho, work of women and the work, of men. . Evoa.whqnwpmen yrltqabout rough life, slums and dives, which,, I sup-pose, sup-pose, hocquld noor,Jiav,ppjpiblj: . seqn, th err work Is so liko thatj tho men thnlt',puld,roallyo impossible to,pick it on?TlS, being that of a wom- "" - - - - - - - But it seems that in tho most recent developments "of French poetry there is a vdry ovldortt dlvorgencou Accqrd-Ing Accqrd-Ing to thenuthor of" thls-boqk, wl -piovo8-hi!-polnt by nurrjerouiuQ,ta-tions nurrjerouiuQ,ta-tions "fram tbTnnJt imndopn. poets "Of both 803ces, the men aro tired of their -own-bitter -pessimism, -thoir-own-utter weariness1 nnd disgust, their own con-templatiohof con-templatiohof lffe as a mere succession of hop'olofcs'tyears that lntveto be gone through, lf on5 has not tho courage for "Suicide; nthat there -is nnuwaken-lng, nnuwaken-lng, a rerfowed lovrj xf strong -muscles, a desiro fo look outward rathor than inward, a fecsljng of, joy In "life for the mere Jiving, tbbo a partof nature, to Uiko aputah animal dejight 4er; sonal vvoir-being. , And wjithjyowom- enjthoreis also an ayajjarhig. The old plan ofyo'men writers f merol copying thoir, ideas and .jSentiients from tho malo writers has apparently 3 been losfln anoVldont desiro on the part, of tho newest poet to analyze thojn owrt-ffiejings, their ovJp.Jonglngs, their ioNVh joys and sorrows,aand, a wIlli;igjies8l'snVJas,toe jPPj and honest with themselves and with the world. r'JJhnt. M.Sqcho'fyj truly points btlt, Isall absolutely ,new psychological psy-chological .fact of vast ininortance. Tho yW9man, ,fvho, all those , years and years "since the, bogjnlng, of things, has maflS her evoryx thought and fo"olinga puoojjnd spcre ,has sought, "orfOlDH. ways of deception, has fe-rod, seemingly, to bo known, now, .at last, gives' herself fully, and freely, without shame, without reserve, without with-out jiny.oVldncovhatovpr -of jirudish-noss. jirudish-noss. ilt is a0mowhat-,llko colp.iyd hotogj;ap1Jy which ives,, uahe, real colors oCnaUiro after ve haye had nothing tffese.mari'y yoars-but the colors col-ors whbh. or painters hjivo(gien.us. Wo are iTw q xn$ .woman in her true color, not at all as 4nan; .h is, tho male waiters have ghfin ijer .to us. -And according ' to the -French pootossos this woman is a wildly voluptuous volup-tuous animal, madly In love with lovo, taking a "joyful dollght in life for the more joy of living, fearing to grow old, "rfot.as mod wouldThave it, bo-causo bo-causo she tttdn lost hor beauty and hor powSK but merely because then life artd"'th?"joyoflivlri wo?o slowly passing. pass-ing. Ank interesting comparison Is made by this author between the treatment treat-ment of naturo by malo"tind fomalo poets. TJie mon'loolc upon natuio as a friend, as something exhilarating and boneficlaVassoin'ethfng beautiful; but the women seem to feel themselves to bo a piirt of .nature,- the. groat mother and they: rarely sing of -stlie more abstract beauty of nature, but rathor of its mopdSiWhich accord with their moods. heystyiUcjof-thettiieeS weeping, of tho fields laughjng, etc.,- |