Proserpine

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• Artists have depicted Proserpine in various forms, often highlighting her dual nature as both a goddess of spring and the underworld.

• Many ancient rituals were dedicated to Proserpine, celebrating her role in the cycle of life and death.

• ♫ Where Proserpine first fell ♫

  Maestro (2023)

• This is true of the most famous, the "Hymn to Proserpine" from Poems and Ballads, first series.

  Academic text (2016)

• The metrical effects I have just described in "Hymn to Proserpine" are strikingly relevant to its theme, its form enacting its content.

  Academic text (2016)

• The lines appropriately rush forward in a way that those of "Proserpine," the "death-song of spiritual decadence," do not ("Dedicatory Epistle," p. xvi).

  Academic text (2016)

• Announcing the death of God and the birth of a secular, humanist ethics, it proceeds with more energy and rapidity than either the "Hymn to Proserpine" or "Song in Time of Revolution," precisely because the two halves of the line, though marked again by rhyme, are less often emphasized by caesurae.

  Academic text (2016)

• "A Song in Time of Revolution," celebrating Garibaldi's successful capture and unification of Naples and Sicily, adheres to the same pattern of meter and rhyme as "Hymn to Proserpine" but with a subtle difference.

  Academic text (2016)

Synonyms

P

Persephone

vsProserpine

• Literature

7 9.9

Daughter of Zeus and Demeter who spends part of each year as queen of the underworld

is the Roman counterpart rather than the original Greek figure

C

Cora

vsProserpine

• Literature

1 8.7

Daughter of Zeus and Demeter who becomes queen of the underworld after Pluto takes her

is identified with the Roman counterpart rather than a separate person

P

Proserpina

vsProserpine

• Literature

1 9.9

A Roman goddess of the world of the dead and of spring

focuses only on underworld role as the Greek counterpart

Surface Forms

Etymology