It's a lovely poem; some of the nuances are lost to me (I have forgotten an awful lot of Greek mythology/history/philosophy because my brain is pants) but I really liked it.
Honestly, I think this poem is doing that thing where if you're specific enough about sensory detail, it accumulates the impression of meaning around it. I didn't know who the youngest of the Pleiades was when I wrote the last line (just that she was, mythologically, a woman who became a star) but I guess in some versions she was married to Sisyphus, which is retrospectively perfect.
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Date: 2020-12-21 08:34 pm (UTC)It's a lovely poem; some of the nuances are lost to me (I have forgotten an awful lot of Greek mythology/history/philosophy because my brain is pants) but I really liked it.
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Date: 2020-12-22 02:44 am (UTC)Honestly, I think this poem is doing that thing where if you're specific enough about sensory detail, it accumulates the impression of meaning around it. I didn't know who the youngest of the Pleiades was when I wrote the last line (just that she was, mythologically, a woman who became a star) but I guess in some versions she was married to Sisyphus, which is retrospectively perfect.