Modern American Poetry

(^372) Louis L. Martz silhouette cut of light, not shadow, and so impersonal it might have been anyone, of almost any country. A ...

H.D.: Set Free to Prophesy 373 poems? “The Pythian pronounces,” she declares in the opening poem of the Trilogy, the prologue wr ...

(^374) Louis L. Martz “Rhododendron” and “Rhodocleia” may relate to the well-known reputation of Isadora as a “Red” after her st ...

H.D.: Set Free to Prophesy 375 the Pythian strings to slay sorrow. (CP,446) The assertion of female integrity is closely related ...

(^376) Louis L. Martz god of poetry and the goddess of wisdom combine to ensure the future of Athens, city of Ion, son of Kreous ...

H.D.: Set Free to Prophesy 377 That she had indeed touched the olive tree is proved by the eloquent poetical finale that follows ...

(^378) Louis L. Martz (Note the rich pun on “content.”) Delia of Miletus: why Miletus? It was the greatest of all Greek cities a ...

H.D.: Set Free to Prophesy 379 blossom, and so die; but I came home, and the last archon saw me reach the door, at dawn; I did n ...

(^380) Louis L. Martz my bride Delia of Miletus. (CP,376) They do not know the prophet within the priestess, for this lover, tho ...

H.D.: Set Free to Prophesy 381 But the question remains: “we passed the flame: we wonder / what saved us? what for?” (CP,510–11) ...

(^382) Louis L. Martz orbit and the shark-jaws of outer circumstance will spit you forth: be indigestible, hard, ungiving, so th ...

H.D.: Set Free to Prophesy 383 This is all preliminary: the secret is not yet found; the quest must continue, as the wordplay up ...

(^384) Louis L. Martz praises of seven angels whose seven golden bowls pour out the wrath of God upon the earth, H.D. calls on s ...

H.D.: Set Free to Prophesy 385 prepared to realize the miracle happening in the outer world, which now in May (Maia) is re-creat ...

(^386) Louis L. Martz Our Lady of the Goldfinch, Our Lady of the Candelabra, Our Lady of the Pomegranate, Our Lady of the Chair ...

H.D.: Set Free to Prophesy 387 she carries a book but it is not the tome of the ancient wisdom, the pages, I imagine, are the bl ...

(^388) Louis L. Martz one remembers that it is a Christmas tale, as the date at the end reminds us: “December 18–31, 1944.” Her ...

H.D.: Set Free to Prophesy 389 voices in the poem work—including the prose voices. As the example of the Hebrew prophets indicat ...

(^390) Louis L. Martz Egyptian Helen,which H.D. may have seen. Here the story says that Helen never was in Troy, but that the go ...

H.D.: Set Free to Prophesy 391 All this is quite in accord with the dual meaning of the work that H.D. suggested later on in the ...