This poem's speaker asserts that he has been "endlessly falling since my birth" and that he has forgotten the names of "Melusina, Laura, Isabel, Persephone, and Mary." The speaker of this poem, which describes a "forest of pillars that are enchanted," travels his way "throug
This poem's speaker asserts that he has been "endlessly falling since my birth" and that he has forgotten the names of "Melusina, Laura, Isabel, Persephone, and Mary." The speaker of this poem, which describes a "forest of pillars that are enchanted," travels his way "through galleries of sound" and "crosses transparencies as though blind." Published in 1957, this poem's first stanza describes a "calm course of a star or the spring" which "pours out prophecies." It opens with images of a "pillar of fountain by the wind drawn over," a "willow of crystal" and a "poplar of water." It closes with the same imagery to illustrate the cyclic nature of the year. For 10 points, identify this poem whose number of lines matches up with the Aztec Calendar, a work of Octavio Paz.
This poem's speaker asserts that he has been "endlessly falling since my birth" and that he has forgotten the names of "Melusina, Laura, Isabel, Persephone, and Mary."
Sun Stone or Piedra del Sol