Sunday, March 11, 2012

Cassandra


Tamara d Lempicka
Andromeda (1929)


Cassandra
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"One day when you are older,
you will regret being my daughter"
—Ted Hughes, "The Poison that Drove
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Apart."
The Sunday Times 28 Mar. 2010

Back again—Sylvia femme fatale
Modernist Feminist—Liberationist poet
Darke Deco Dame—Sylvia Plath’s Other
The voyage of Cassandra—to now
I see her clearly—against Cubist cityscape
Chained princess—daughter of King Priam
Orestes poets—like Ted Hughes
Swooping down—with winged sandals
What fools they are—doing in Clytemnestra
Fresh from offing—stoned Troy moderne
But the Era of Aeschylus—is dead & over
The Waste Land—our true cemetery
So much for mock-heroic—mythologies
Cassandra playing—Sylvia Plath
She is Ariel—free at last of bondage
Nobody believes her—that’s the curse
Are those that see—doomed like her?



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