DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here: "The Mysteries Remain" by H.D Originally read: December 6, 2012 More information about the Poet: H.D I'm not a fan of sing-songy rhyme or allusion for that matter.  In my last post, I wondered about the use of allusion and context in a poem.  How much does a person need to know to feel the poem is effective?  What if the technique of the poem stands out more than the experience in the poem. This poem is no exception, I suppose.  The rhyme scheme is really irritating to me in the beginning: remain, same rain, "These rhymes are irritating and redundant. sing-songy." I wrote. Yet this line, "Demeter in the grass" really got to me, "This image struck me the most out [of all the choices that day] and made me choose it [this poem to look at again].  I just had this image of Demeter in the grass." So this is where allusion, at least for me, kicks in hard.  Demeter lost her daughter Persephone to the god Hades.  ...