All the male poets write of orpheus as if they look back & expect to find me walking patiently behind them. they claim i fell into hell. damn them, i say. i stand in my own pain & sing my own song.
I like the poem. There is so much written, painted and sculpted with the lament of orpheus as subject, but so little on how it all must have felt for Eurydice. I recommend the Orpheus poems of Margaret Atwood.
I like the poem. There is so much written, painted and sculpted with the lament of orpheus as subject, but so little on how it all must have felt for Eurydice.
ReplyDeleteI recommend the Orpheus poems of Margaret Atwood.