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I don't think I see what is apropos. March Hares are mad, and the poems of "Inventions of the March Hare" have a good deal of madness in them. They hardly have any joys of renewal or bunnies and eggs--even stale ones. And the fertility of "Prufrock's Pervigilium" is pretty disturbed and disturbing. I don't see much connection with these images of sentiment. How are they related?
Nancy
>>> Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]> 03/16/08 11:44 PM >>>
apropos the title
Inventions of the March Hare
CR
Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
EASTER
the holiday commemorates resurrection
bunnies and eggs
In the headlong rush that seems to be 2008, "Easter" comes next Sunday, March 23.
The last time the bunny came hippity-hopping on March 23 was back in 1913.
Chocolate bunnies
http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/91171
the all-important fertile egg
flowers, especially lilies
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The Ultimate Easter Eggs
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/16/neggs116.xml
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The Christian adoption of fertility symbols such as eggs and rabbits
would seem to lend support to a fertility goddess's name
as the root word of Easter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg
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Incidentally
in 'A Cooking Egg'
at the age of thirty,
three years after his marriage,
the poet likens himself to a cooking egg,
i.e. an egg which has become stale,
precluding the possibility of hatching into a new life,
so that it can only be used to appease hunger.
To the poet, it seems to represent
his present state of debasement.
It indicates to him the loss
of his childhood world
of Edenic innocence,
'the penny world',
"perpetually lost and perpetually sought for",
as also the loss of hope of spiritual regeneration.
That's an old story, though.
CR
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