god
Venus
also: Aphrodite
Roman goddess of love, born from the sea-foam; her rising is rendered in 'Geburt der Venus' and recalled in the white rose of 'Die Rosenschale.'
Reading notes
- New Poems §72 the goddess
Venus (Aphrodite), born from the sea-foam; the poem renders her rising and the dead dolphin flung onto the same shore at noon.
- New Poems §73 a Venus upright in the shell
The white rose recalls Venus rising 'upright in the shell,' as in Botticelli's Birth of Venus.