“persephone”
by walter wykes
your laughter echoes still
in that bright field...
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“persephone”
by walter wykes
your laughter echoes still
in that bright field where you played
so carefree, a little goddess
arms white as milk
gathering flowers with your playmates
when the earth shook
and through the crumbling ground
your monstrous lover burst
an uninvited guest
snatching you away
plucking your innocence
as you had plucked flowers
only moments before
how you must have cried out
must have begged for your release
when your mother learned of the abduction
her grief stopped the earth, the moon, the stars in their tracks
the world became eternal winter
there was no consolation, no solace
no moving on
what an unexpected miracle when you returned to us
a gift from the gods
but you are not the same
no longer that bright child
a handful of seeds has sealed your fate
and though all things flourish in your presence
your laughter is colored by that other place, that dark lover
and in your eyes cold winter reigns
source: wykes, walter. “persephone.” black cat poems. capella university, n. d. web. 21 june 2011.
how does presenting this story as a poem rather than a myth affect the message?
the poem is clearer and easier to understand than the myth.
the myth presents persephone more sympathetically than the poem.
the poem allows the reader to empathize with persephone more than the myth does.
it doesn’t make any difference to the message at all.
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