![]() “When they came to question the girl before the local judge it was discovered that there were seventeen men more or less involved so that there was nothing to do but to declare the child a common bastard and send the girl about her business. So, in that sense, Kora in Hell alludes to the multitude of suffering young women Williams met while working as a doctor, assisting in 1917 style home labors, and, because WWI was going on at the time and doctors were extremely scarce, as a local police surgeon. Or because she in a way represents all of the maidens, everywhere. Ancient Greeks called her that either because she was like Voldemort, and you were apotropaically not supposed to say her true name because this is a Mystery Cult, damn it. ![]() Persephone as a plant goddess and her mother Demeter were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries, which promised the initiated a groovy afterlife glimpsed at by psychedelic shrooms. Kora is a parallel figure to Persephone or Proserpina, the Spring captured and taken to Hades by Hades himself. William Carlos Williams attributes the title to his friend/rival Ezra Pound, mythological references’ number one fanboy. ![]()
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