Oh give it Motion－deck it sweet 1
With Artery and Vein－
Upon its fastened Lips lay words－
Affiance it again
To that Pink stranger we call Dust－5
Acquainted more with that
Than with this horizontal one
That will not lift its Hat－
With Artery and Vein－
Upon its fastened Lips lay words－
Affiance it again
To that Pink stranger we call Dust－5
Acquainted more with that
Than with this horizontal one
That will not lift its Hat－
(F.1550/J.1527)
[1] it sweet:: a female monster made by Frankenstein, who created a male first.
[1-3] Motion, Vein, Lips:: the process of how Frankenstein built the female monster.
[4] Affiance:: to promise in marriage solemnly. The male monster asked Frankenstein to make a wife for him. again:: the female monster was made of a woman dead, assuming married once.
[5] Pink:: perfect, from the view of science; or vexing. stranger:: the world and Frankenstein don't really understand the monster.
[5] Dust:: a dead body.
[7] horizontal:: produced with uniformity like in a factory; the industrialization Mary Shelley tried to accuse in this novel.
[7, 8] one, not lift its Hat:: the rude male monster.
"You must create a female for me with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being." ─ Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1823) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley