Before Time Could Change Them (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Konstantionos Petrou Kabaphes
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Time of Work: Classical antiquity to the 1930’s
- Setting: The eastern Mediterranean, especially Alexandria, Egypt
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, Gods or goddesses, Bereavement or grief, Greek or Roman times, Greece or Greek people
- Locales: Egypt
In every century there are those poets who work on the small scale, at the intimate level, where the individual seems to speak, or even whisper, half overheard, to one other person. The language of these close, personal conversations seems to assume (or perhaps create) a shared knowledge between poet and reader. The poems allude rather than explain; they hint, rather than describe; and they refer rather than demonstrate. Most of all, through the whole body of the poet’s work, the poems, however different their subject matter or tone, continue conversations begun long before and...
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