Garden (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Hilda Doolittle
- First Published: 1916
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Flowers, Edible plants, Trees, Fruit, Plants, Gardens or gardening, Wind, Heat, Roses
The Poem
“Garden” is a brief free-verse lyric, divided into two parts. None of the poem’s twenty-four lines exceeds seven syllables in length, and many are shorter. The stanzas are of varying length, but each is made up of a single sentence. These formal characteristics reinforce the poem’s small scale; H. D. is working on a deliberately small canvas.
Each section begins with an address to an element present in the garden: to a rose in the first part, to the wind in the second. Yet each section then modulates from the prayerlike address into a more meditative...
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