Poem Title |
Original Publication |
CP Page no |
Water |
An Autumn Wind, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2010 |
Not included in CP |
Allusion to Classical figure Thales
Relationship to Classical text Mahon makes an oblique reference to the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Thales, who asserted that water was the primary element, from which everything else was formed. Aristotle gives an account of Thales' philosophy in his Metaphysics I 983b.