Body of Summer (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Odysseus Alepoudhélis
- First Published: 1943
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Insects, Winter, Plants, Weather, Sun, Summer
The Poem
“Body of Summer” is a free-verse poem of four stanzas. The poem can be divided in half: The first two stanzas describe a landscape in the voice of a third-person narrator; the last two stanzas address the personified landscape directly in the song of the “little siren.”
A deceptively simple description of midsummer opens the poem: “A long time has passed since the last rainfall was heard.” The landscape is dry, parched from long drought. “Now the sky burns endlessly.” Populated by ants and lizards, the landscape seems inhuman, yet the fruit...
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