"Europa" - "Do You Remember Brother" by Joan Murray Simpson Poem animation

Heres a virtual movie of an exquisite poem called "Europa" by Joan Murray Simpson a poet I have not managed to find anything about. I think the poem was probably written in the late 1960′s.This very sad and beautiful poem irefers to the greek myth of Zeus disguised as a bull to seduce Europa and take hear across the sea waves the pacing and phrasing of this little poetic gem are pure magic I also suspect it like so many melancholic poems is also a mechanism for evoking a moment of tragedy that probably exists in all our lives where somebody close to us was taken from us enexpectedly. In Greek mythology Europa (Greek Ευρώπη) was a Phoenician woman of high lineage, from whom the name of the continent Europe has ultimately been taken. The name Europa occurs in Hesiod's long list of daughters of primordial Oceanus and Tethys.[1] The story of her abduction by Zeus in the form of a white bull was a Cretan story; as Kerényi points out "most of the love-stories concerning Zeus originated from more ancient tales describing his marriages with goddesses. This can especially be said of the story of Europa".[2] The daughter of the earth-giant Tityas and mother of Euphemus by Poseidon was also named Europa. Europa's earliest literary reference is in the Iliad, which is commonly dated to the 8th century BC

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Jim Clark
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