En Robe De Parade

The Garden
By: Ezra Pound

En robe de parade.
-Samain ("Dressed for show")

Like a skien of loose silk blown against a wall
She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,
And she is dying piece-meal
       of a sort of emotional anaemia.

And round about there is a rabble
Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.
They shall inherit the earth.

In her is the end of breeding.
Her boredom is exquisite and excessive.
She would like some one to speak to her,
And is almost afraid that I
       will commit that indiscretion.


In analyzing this poem I have painted a certain image in my head:  
I see a beautiful girl walking through the royal gardens.
"Kensington Gardens"  

"Like a loose silk blown against a wall 
She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens" 

I picture a younger girl as  that is what identifies in my mind when
I think of silk.She is either very high class or of royal or noble
descent. judging from the fact sheis walking in a private garden
 and by the fact that it would be considered unmannerly
for just anyone to want to speak to her or to do it,
 ("She would like someone to speak to her ,
And is almost afraid that I will commit that indiscretion.")
this also leads me to believe
that this is a somewhat long period of time ago. 
Maybe in the times of the first kings and queens.   

"And she is dying piecemeal of a sort of emotional anemia"

I imagine her to be of a fair or light colored complection.
Maybe she has been locked  away inside for studies
or royal duties. I would imagine that in time a girl who was
dirty from being outside would be considered  low class or low
in moral standards. Maybe she feels emotionless due to
the fact that she cannot show certain  feelings or act in
certain ways in her position. Maybe she wants to dance
 and be silly in the garden but she cannot because that
would not be very becoming of a young high class lady.  

"She is dying piecemeal"  
This makes me think she is unhappy with
her circumstances, that she is loosing herself or her ideal self. 
I think she enjoys being outside, being as it is a
change pace from what she is accustom to.
I imagine her running her hands over 
deep red roses she has probably touched very few
times in her life, and enjoying the sunlight that her
skin so desperately needs.   

"And round about there is rabble 
Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor"  

There is some gateway or entrance to either the
garden or to the palace near the garden where poor
or  lower class children are playing.
They are filthy due to the fact that they might
not have means to bathe,  or they enjoy being dirty.
They are "sturdy" and "unkillable" in the sense that
the system of poor people seems  rather prevalent.
All over the world there are some sort of poor class.

Even the Bible talks about there always  being
poor among us. In a society where people can
become so rich, there will always be the
ability to be very poor.  

I am sure she can not only hear them, but also see
them. I wonder though how she sees them through
such an emtionlessgaze. A part of me believes that she
would like to talk to them.
"She would like someone to speak to her...."

"In her is the end of breeding."

This could mean a number of things.
I view it personally as her being a
young queen or mistress to the king who is unable to
give a male heir. She is an end in the philosophy terms,
"an end as a means", she is only good
when giving heirs.
She also an "end" if she cannot produce a male heir,
as in those times a male was most preferable.

"Her boredom is exquisite and excessive"

If she is a queens maybe she feels bored of doing royal
duties for a number of reasons. She may not feel as if she is the
 best to judge such matters. She feels as if she hates dealing with royal
matters. If she is a mistress maybe "entertaining the king"
persay, is becoming a boring task.

"She would like some one to speak to her,
And is almost afraid that I
  will commit the indiscretion."

I wonder who she is talking about when she thinks this.
Is she talking about the male author?
Or the poor children?
Or any other royal person watching her?
I would like to think that she is looking at a child.
That maybe she misses the childlike attributes of herself.