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Poem about the goddess Hera please tell me what it means?
the poem is called
Hera(In the Heraeum) by Paul Hamilton Hayne
ONCE between Argos and Mycenae shone
Half-veiled in myrtle and mysterious pine,
The ivory splendors of that holy shrine,
Wherein embowered, majestic, and alone
Her sculptured brow with wavering locks overblown,
As if by airs ethereal and divine,
Smiled the calm goddess of Olympian line,
Girt by awed silence, like a sacred zone:
Save that mild murmurings sounding vague and far,
From suppliant women -- through frail-hearted dread
Touched the shy pulses of that strange repose,
Till the last petal dropped from sunset's rose,
And gleamed through twilight, like a flawless star,
The chastened glory of proud Hera's head!
How i interpret it is that its about Hera's statue cause Heraeum means archtecture or something. Someone please hell me what this poem is about
Argos is a city in Greece, and Mycenae is 6km north of it. The poem is describing a "holy shrine" containing a statue of Hera, queen of the gods of Olympus, and located between these two places. "Heraeum" is the name of the building or temple that houses her statue, and her worship.
Once, she was "veiled in myrtle and mysterious pine"... etc... is describing what the shrine might have been like in its heyday. But "chastened glory" implies that the glory is pruned, or has suffered. Maybe a reference to the fact that she was once worshiped as queen of the gods, and is now nothing but a ruin and a myth?