Poem Title |
Original Publication |
CP Page no |
XII: Aphrodite’s Pool |
The Yellow Book, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 1997 |
247-248 |
Allusion to Classical figure Aphrodite, nymphs. Mahon imagines himself as a satyr or as ‘some corrupt, capricious emperor’.
Allusion to classical place Cyclades, temple to the Muses, Atlantis
Relationship to Classical text The ‘god-familiar hills’, nymphs and mention of a ‘mythic moment of metamorphosis’ evoke an Ovidian idyll, punctured by surf-boards and ‘disco-ships’