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asphodel

1. any of various S European liliaceous plants of the genera Asphodelus and Asphodeline, having clusters of white or yellow flowers
2. any of various other plants, such as the daffodil
3. an unidentified flower of Greek legend, probably a narcissus, said to cover the Elysian fields
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But although H.D.'s work identifies these institutionally "revered beliefs and values" with a patriarchal tradition, images and ideas of museums also enabled her to negotiate identity against this precedent: in Asphodel, Hermione's sense of self and embodied responses, and in Trilogy, a particularly gendered artistic identity.
The world of Asphodel is fully realised in this highly atmospheric novel, which has, at its core, the themes of enslavement and the quest for justice for the oppressed.
* Staff was authorized to purchase a stock unit rescue response vehicle from Asphodel Fire Trucks Ltd.
Asphodel are arising from their winter graves, ghostly white and waving in the warm breeze.
In this article I examine two feature-length official war films, The Battle of the Somme (1916) and The Battle of the Ancre and the Advance of the Tanks (1917), as important historical contexts for Virginia Woolf's and H.D.'s respective 'war novels', Jacob's Room (1922) and Asphodel (1922), both of which were written between 1921 and 1922.
The positive effect of GA, in particular the 50 mg/l concentration found in this study, on the speed and percentage of germination in sunflower is in line with the results obtained in asphodel (Rahmanpour.
(14) "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" (end of Book 1) in William Carlos Williams, Journey to Love (NewYork: Random House, 1955), p.
The enigmatic little rare moth called Weaver's Wave can be seen again basking on the quartz-rich rocks, and the starry saxifrage and bog asphodel flower in the mossy runnels.
The plant most commonly eaten by the hermits in isolated caves was Melagria, identified as asphodel, a plant common in the Judean Desert, with edible tubers.
Describing his addled brain, Egaeus compares it to the 'ocean-crag spoken of by Ptolemy Hephestion, which steadily resisting the attacks of human violence, and the fiercer fury of the waters and the winds, trembled only to the touch of the flower called Asphodel' (334).
--HD's Her and Asphodel, which made her lesbianism explicit in a way that ran counter to old ideas about her as one of Pound's girls and/or a chiseled, chilled Hellenist: of course those texts had to wait for a lesbian-feminist criticism to appreciate them.
The sun made no accidental patterns upon the spreading roots of the trees, and there was intention in the molding clumps of asphodel, and in the music of the water.
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