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A Study Guide for Mary Jo Salter's "Trompe l'Oeil," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
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A Study Guide for Mary Jo Salter's "Trompe l'Oeil" - Gale
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Trompe l'Oeil
Mary Jo Salter
2003
Introduction
Mary Jo Salter's poem Trompe l'Oeil,
which provided the title for her 2003 collection Open Shutters, describes an artistic style found in Genoa, Italy, and throughout Europe: that of painting realistic murals on the outside walls of houses and buildings, so real that people passing by are fooled, at least briefly, into mistaking the painted images for the things they represent. Salter uses this particular style of painting to spark a meditation on the nature of reality and the arts in general, finding insincerity in both the fake shutters that stand beside a real window and the French word "oeil itself, which can be considered deceptive or a lie because it presents a final
l" to the eye but not to the ear (it is not pronounced the way it is spelled if one assumes each letter stands for a specific
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