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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PERSEUS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her sleeping head with its great gelid mass Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Perseus | |||
Her sleeping head with its great gelid mass of serpents torpidly astir burned into the mirroring shield a scathing image dire as hated truth the mind accepts at last and festers on. I struck. The shield flashed bare. Yet even as I lifted up the head and started from that place of gazing silences and terrored stone, I thirsted to destroy. None could have passed me then no garland-bearing girl, no priest or staring boy-and lived. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PERSEUS by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE DANAE AND PERSEUS by SIMONIDES OF CEOS PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN THEME AND VARIATION by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN LINES FROM A PLUTOCRATIC POETASTER TO A DITCH-DIGGER by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS A FINE DAY by KATHERINE MANSFIELD THE LAWYER'S INVOCATION TO SPRING by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL |
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