Sunday, June 5, 2011

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), "The Orchard" and "Eurydice"

http://www.poetry-archive.com/d/orchard.html

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/182485

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  1. Eurydice is one of my favorite Greek Myth stories. It shows the lost of a life but, it also shows the arrogance of man. When I first read the story my freshmen year in college, I could not help but wonder if Eurydice had any harsh feelings toward Orpheus for his actions. H.D. definitely speaks for what I would think Eurydice would want to say. As men, we always seem to have to learn everything "The Hard Way." We like to learn through trial and error, we would rather lose and re-gain than to not lose and read the directions that were laid out before we attempted the feat.

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