Sweeney, in Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes, says he'll carry Doris off to a cannibal isle (she's unimpressed). There will be:

Nothing to hear but the sound of the surf.
Nothing at all but three things.
DORIS: What things?
SWEENEY: Birth, and copulation, and death. That's all, that's all, that's all, that's all. Birth and copulation and death.
DORIS: I'd be bored.

Later the island is praised, in a parody of a popular song, as a place

Where the Gauguin maids
In the banyan shades Wear palm leaf drapery
Under the bam
Under the boo
Under the bamboo tree.

Paul Gauguin, 'Self-Portrait with Glasses' (1903)

LRB 21 October 2010 | PDF Download