This poet declared "we shall have early fruit this year" at the end of a poem in which an examination of a man's body finds "nothing in the brain but the dead echo of the sky."
This poet declared "we shall have early fruit this year" at the end of a poem in which an examination of a man's body finds "nothing in the brain but the dead echo of the sky." This author of "The Autopsy" wrote a poem whose fourth section describes the "whole world emptied with that very last cry" of the title figure, who "lies on the scorched cape"-- that poem was based on his experience fighting in the title offensive during World War II. One of his longest poems is divided into the sections "The Genesis," "The Passion," and "The Gloria," and is named for an icon of the Virgin Mary found on Mt. Athos. He praised the light of his native country in poems such as "Drinking the Sun of Corinth." For 10 points, name this modernist Greek poet of Heroic and Elegiac Song for the Lost Second Lieutenant of the Albanian Campaign and To Axion Esti.
This poet declared "we shall have early fruit this year" at the end of a poem in which an examination of a man's body finds "nothing in the brain but the dead echo of the sky."
Odysseus Elytis [or Odysseus Alepoudellis]