Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TRANSIT OF THE GODS, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange that the self's continuum should outlast Last Line: To dance my dust at last into the tomb. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love; Mythology; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness | ||||||||
Strange that the self's continuum should outlast The Virgin, Aphrodite, and the Mourning Mother, All loves and griefs, successive deities That hold their kingdom in the human breast. Abandoned by the gods, woman with an ageing body That half remembers the Annunciation, The passion and the travail and the grief That wore the mask of my humanity, I marvel at the soul's indifference. For in her theatre the play is done, The tears are shed; the actors, the immortals In their ceaseless manifestation, elsewhere gone, And I who have been virgin and Aphrodite, The mourning Isis and the queen of corn Wait for the last mummer, dread Persephone To dance my dust at last into the tomb. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS A MESSAGE TO MICHAEL by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE |
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