“The Garden of Proserpine,” a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, addresses the myth of the Rape of Proserpine. Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, controversial in his own day.

The Garden of Proserpine remains one of the most outstanding atheistical poems ever written—a musical masterpiece in every way—sublimely beautiful in its pagan splendour.

Only a sledge-hammer, I think, is capable of breaking-up their concrete thick heads and getting thru to whatever little bit of brains they have hiding there in the middle of the concrete slabs they call their “heads”. excerpt from "The Garden of Proserpine" by Algernon Charles Swinburne Prosperine is the Latin spelling of “Persophone,” a goddess married to Hades, the god of the underworld. Dead winds' and spent waves' riot In doubtful dreams of dreams; I watch the green field growing . by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Here, where the world is quiet; Here, where all trouble seems . The Garden of Proserpine. On a serious note, I learn something everyday from Darkmoon’s writers. I cannot praise it too highly.

According to legend, her garden of poppies would cause travelers to forget their purpose and fall into a waking sleep. Something like that. I should also add that when you’re lucid, your writing is superb — long sentences shored up with commas and humorous yet poetic repetitions. Tip of the true Mick porkpie hat, flopot & troj, i was out bromancing and commiserating with my brother in law all day and we put a workmanlike dent in his wine cellar so i wasn’t able to follow the twists and turns in real time.

The Garden of Proserpine is based on the ancient Greek story of Persephone, a pretty but unlucky girl who was abducted by Hades and forced to be the queen of the underworld. This is the website of Lasha Darkmoon, an anglo-American academic with higher degrees in Classics who lives and works in England. ´ The poem exudes an exotic perfume of godlessness and world-weariness that will delight the heart of the poetic pessimist. …………..\………….\…. That’s a joke! but, im-Humble-o, the ridiculous but true phrase that gave me a washroom break’s worth of puffed up pride is “calm anxiety“, which is my best understanding of Victorian England, exemplified by 5-foot swinburne and his 6-foot manly muse in diaphanous drag, Judea squatting on Albion’s face even as he pretended to let out his imperial roar. Enough of the praise, though. I like to think Repetition is an effective literary device to drive ihome mportant points and make the points stick, in both my prose and my poetry, but I’m just fooling myself. …………\…………..( It’s good to see we’re on the same page concerning the value of the Repetition as a literary device, . You can read more about Darkmoon here. Yes, Flopot.

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