what is the theme of the poem the daffy
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Daffy Duck in Hollywood” was written in 1975 and published two years later as part of the highly regarded collection Houseboat Days. It is a long, apparently disjointed poem dominated by a wide variety of different discursive voices all competing for the reader’s attention. It has no clear theme or structure, and purposefully defies summary, but basically it begins with Daffy reflecting on his plight, moves through considerations of high and low culture, before ending with an imposed lyricism which may or may not resolve the issues to hand. The often quoted and exhaustively analysed opening of the poem has a daffy Ashbery launching into a cacophonous symphony of rampant signifying that one might compare to a form of verbal dioarehha or haemorrhaging, or to switching channels on the radio or TV:
Something strange is creeping across me.
La Celestina has only to warble the first few bars
Of “I Thought about You” or something mellow from
Amadigi di Gaula for everything—a mint-condition can
Of Rumford’s Baking Powder, a celluloid earring, Speedy
Gonzales, the latest from Helen Topping Miller’s fertile
Escritoire, a sheaf of suggestive pix on greige, deckle-edged
Stock—to come clattering through the rainbow trellis
Where Pistachio Avenue rams the 2300 block of Highland Fling Terrace.
He promised he’d get me out of this one,
That mean old cartoonist, but just look what he’s
Done to me now! I scarce dare approach me mug’s attenuated
Reflection in yon hubcap, so jaundiced, so déconfit
Are its lineaments—fun, no doubt, for some quack phrenologist’s
Fern-clogged waiting room, but hardly what you’d call
Companionable. But everything is getting choked to the point of
Silence. Just now a magnetic storm hung in the swatch of sky
Over the Fudds’ garage, reducing it—drastically—
To the aura of a plumbago-blue log cabin on
A Gadsden Purchase commemorative cover.
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