An Explication of “Conversation Galante”

“Conversation Galante” is an epigram consisting of three sestets, each filled with personification and the use of many colorful metaphors. Though the woman in conversation is never identified, it does not change the attitude the narrator takes toward her. The author uses sarcasm to respond to the disdainful female in the poem in an effort to prove her overly serious attitude to the audience.
The poem starts with the narrator making outrageous comments about the moon, while tricking the woman he is speaking with into believing that he serious. He then goes on to defend his comments by explaining that someone gives an idea of what the moon is and how it causes the night and moonlight, and that that idea is accepted like music to our ears. Quick acceptance of this idea, however, is not because one agrees with it so much, but because it fills internal emptiness. The woman asks if he is referring to her as empty. Sarcastically, he denies it, saying that he is really talking about...