Poem Title |
Original Publication |
CP Page no |
To Cynthia in the Country |
Raw Material, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2011 |
Not included in CP |
Length / Form Eight-line stanzas, laid out on the page in imitation of the elegiac meter (with alternate lines indented).
Allusion to Classical figure Cynthia, Actaeon
Allusion to Classical place Shrine, temples, Clitumnus
Close translation of words/phrases/excerpts The poem is a version of Propertius' Elegies II, 19.
Classical/post-Classical intertexts Propertius' rural idyll is given Irish overtones when Cynthia is imagined "hitching up [her] skirts for a good céilí".
Comment The Sextus and Cynthia poems were first published in a limited edition (Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2009).