Comparing the poem “Demeter” to the Poem “Demeter to Persephone” For the Metamorphosis paper I am focusing on the divinity Demeter, also known as Ceres. The love of a mother in different retellings of the Hymn of Demeter and poems about Demeter show how a mother’s love can do great things to get their daughter back. One can say that the poems are similar in ways and that they go along with each other smoothly. The authors of both of these poems have done an outstanding job at making both of these poems get the emotional point across. In the poem Demeter by Carol Ann Duffy, she talks about how dark and gloomy Demeter’s life was because her daughter was taken away from her. In the first few lines, 1-4, it says, “Where I lived – winter and
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This poem does not have as good as turn as the poem by Carol Ann Duffy. When Alicia describes the how Demeter saw Persephone, it is a sad description. In the middle of the poem, lines 6-9, Alicia writes “I waited and was patient finally you emerged and were immediately soaked you stared at me without love in your large eyes that were filled with black sex and white powder.”(Ostriker 6-9) This shows that Demeter can see that her daughter is hurt and this makes Demeter feel hurt. One can almost think that Demeter can feel Persephone’s pain from all that she has been through. As the poem goes on it says that Demeter would expect this from her daughter. When Demeter says this she starts to embrace her daughter and comfort her. This is the time when spring shows up in the poem. This would be a point where Demeter is happy to see her daughter and that as she gets her daughter back the ‘seasons’ lighten up and become spring.
These two poems complement each other in different ways. The poem Demeter is a base that gives details from how Demeter was heart broken from her daughter being kidnapped to her slowly mending her heart back together when her daughter comes back to her. The second poem, Demeter to Persephone, would help the end of the Demeter poem; this poem is almost like a sequel to the first poem. Demeter to Persephone helps the reader understand how Demeter knows
This poem does not have as good as turn as the poem by Carol Ann Duffy. When Alicia describes the how Demeter saw Persephone, it is a sad description. In the middle of the poem, lines 6-9, Alicia writes “I waited and was patient finally you emerged and were immediately soaked you stared at me without love in your large eyes that were filled with black sex and white powder.”(Ostriker 6-9) This shows that Demeter can see that her daughter is hurt and this makes Demeter feel hurt. One can almost think that Demeter can feel Persephone’s pain from all that she has been through. As the poem goes on it says that Demeter would expect this from her daughter. When Demeter says this she starts to embrace her daughter and comfort her. This is the time when spring shows up in the poem. This would be a point where Demeter is happy to see her daughter and that as she gets her daughter back the ‘seasons’ lighten up and become spring.
These two poems complement each other in different ways. The poem Demeter is a base that gives details from how Demeter was heart broken from her daughter being kidnapped to her slowly mending her heart back together when her daughter comes back to her. The second poem, Demeter to Persephone, would help the end of the Demeter poem; this poem is almost like a sequel to the first poem. Demeter to Persephone helps the reader understand how Demeter knows