Trans Siberian

Part 2...


As Jeanne falls asleep, he mentions all the different times in different places, such as: Berlin, San Petersburg, Ufa, Grodno, and how we set our clocks in the morning to the hour. During this trip, “There are trains that never meet”, and “Others loose themselves on the ways” We can say that he is not only talking about a trip that someone does but there is much more he talks about in this poem. He talks about how great life can be with all its beautiful places, people we might meet there and our feelings which we have during different moments, and people we might never meet. In other words Cendrars tries to emphasis the diversity of life and how it can’t be stopped. The many details makes the reader able to imagine the whole situation, to do so he mentions many factors like colors, which might stand for different emotions, such as red, yellow. He uses also different kinds of sounds to give us an idea of what he was experiencing. He mentions how drunk he was during the trip and that he could not see much, just his piano in front of him, and he wishes to sleep because he remembers everything about the trip while he closes his eyes. When he finally arrives to his final destination, he wants to go back to Paris because he now understands how long he was away from his birthplace. And he remembers what a beautiful city Paris is like stated in his words” Paris… City of the inimitable Tower the great Gallows and the Wheel”, even though he enjoyed the trip at the end he misses his hometown and describes it to be the most beautiful places, which probably has to do with how people are emotionally linked to a certain city or place and how this place will always seem the best to us.