Rita Dove’s book-length poetic sequence "Mother Love" (1995) does not offer a totalizing focalization of the myth of Demeter and Persephone but instead enacts a multifaceted representation of its events and meanings. This essay focuses on poems that develop the timeless theme of the metamorphosis of individual identity and interpersonal relationships. In these poems, direct evocations of the archetypal figures and plot elements are set alongside or are superimposed on characterizations and actions appropriate to contemporary life.
'Through sunlight into flowers she walked, and was pulled down': Demeter and Persephone in Rita Dove's "Mother Love"
FARRANT, Winifred
2011-01-01
Abstract
Rita Dove’s book-length poetic sequence "Mother Love" (1995) does not offer a totalizing focalization of the myth of Demeter and Persephone but instead enacts a multifaceted representation of its events and meanings. This essay focuses on poems that develop the timeless theme of the metamorphosis of individual identity and interpersonal relationships. In these poems, direct evocations of the archetypal figures and plot elements are set alongside or are superimposed on characterizations and actions appropriate to contemporary life.
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