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reflective
sad
fast-paced
3.0
Gregory Orr has some beautiful poems, and there were some moments of his lyricism appearing in his interpretation of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. With all honesty, I didn’t think this sequence of poems was amazing or terrible. In fact, I was pretty indifferent about it, mostly wishing that Orr had spent more time expanding on his ideas.
That being said, I admit that I’m a little picky about how this myth is approached, regardless of medium, mostly because this is one of my favorite stories. I’m inclined to say that if you want more, it’s well worth checking out how Ovid tells the myth in Metamorphoses or Rainer Maria Rilke’s Die Sonette an Orpheus.
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Graphic: Death and Grief
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