person
Eve
also: Eva
The first woman of Genesis; Rodin's Eve, conceived for the Gate of Hell, bends inward at the dawning gravity of motherhood.
Reading notes
- Auguste Rodin §27 Eve
Rodin's Eve, modelled for the Gate of Hell; the body curved inward under the dawning weight of motherhood.
- New Poems: The Other Part §32 the apple
Eve in her iconographic 'apple-pose' on the cathedral, 'guiltless-guilty' for the growing life she bore; she leaves eternity 'striving toward death,' having 'scarcely known God.'