Ancient Comedy pursues its harmonies and divides its Idylls: <br />Raised platforms along the boulevards. <br />A long wooden pier the length of a rocky field in which <br />the barbarous crowd moves about under the denuded trees. <br />In corridors of black gauze, following the promenades <br />with their lanterns and their leaves. <br />Birds of the mysteries swoop down onto a masonry pontoon, <br />swayed by the sheltered archipelago of spectators' boats. <br />Operatic scenes with accompaniment of flute and drum <br />look down from slanting recesses contrived below <br />the ceilings around modern club rooms and halls of ancient Orient. <br />The fairy spectacle maneuvers at the top of an amphitheater <br />crowned with thickets,-- or moves and modulates for the Boeotians <br />in the shade of waving forest trees, on the edge of the cultivated fields. <br />The opera-comique is divided on a stage at the line of intersection <br />of ten partitions set up between the gallery and the footlights.<br /><br />Arthur Rimbaud<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/stages-scenes/
