Orchard (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Hilda Doolittle
- First Published: 1912
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Nature, Beauty, Edible plants, Trees, Fruit, Orchards
The Poem
First published under the title “Priapus” and often referred to as “Spare us from Loveliness,” “Orchard” is a short poem. Containing thirty-one lines, it is written in free verse and divided into four stanzas of unequal length. As its title suggests, its setting and focal point is an orchard in autumn, replete with epicurean treasures that inspire both awe and apprehension in the first-person narrator.
Unlike many poems in which orchard or garden imagery is used simply to suggest fecundity, fertility, or abundance, for this narrator the splendor of...
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