The Garden (H. D.) by Hilda Doolittle
The poem addresses a rose that appears clear, rock-cut, and as hard as hail’s descent. The speaker imagines scraping colour from its petal like dye from stone and declares that breaking the rose would be like breaking a tree. In oppressive heat, the speaker calls on the wind to tear and cut the air apart, since the thick heat prevents fruit from falling, blunts pears, and rounds grapes.
By Hilda Doolittle · First published 1920 · Genre: Poetry, Modernist Literature, Autobiographical · 178 words
First lines
You are clear, / O rose, cut in rock, / hard as the descent of hail.
I could scrape the colour / from the petal, / like spilt dye from a rock.
If I could break you / I could break a tree.
If I could stir / I could break a tree, / I could break you.
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Hilda Doolittle
- Date: 1920 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Poetry, Modernist Literature, Autobiographical, Nature Writing
- Length: 178 words
- Structure: 1 section, 8 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Very Easy (5th Grade or below)
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- Poetry — The book was written by D.H. Lawrence, a renowned poet, and the stylistic elements of the book support the classification in the genre of Poetry.
- Modernist Literature — Lawrence was a modernist writer, and the themes present in the book, such as illusion versus reality and fragmentation, are characteristics of Modernist Literature.
- Autobiographical — The book contains elements from Lawrence's personal life, aligning it with the Autobiographical genre.
- Nature Writing — Given the title and the prevalent themes in the book, it can also be categorized under the Nature Writing genre.
Tags
nature · symbolism · growth · transformation · feminism · identity · desire · spirituality · landscape · mythology · modernism · introspection