Cheryl Walker

Love and Longing

In the Fall we are broken, but with Love we find the promise of healing. This is the message of the gospels, but many of us have experienced this quite outside of any religious context; we simply come into the presence of love bareheaded with all our wounds apparent. When I fell in love with my husband, I had at the time no religious affiliation, and yet what I profoundly felt was that we were one soul that God had cut apart, a little off center perhaps, creating a bigger and a smaller half. Now, it seemed, we would reunite the parts and all my scars would disappear.

Masks Outrageous and Austere: Culture, Psyche, and Persona in Modern Women Poets

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Women and Feminine Literary Traditions-Amy Lowell and the Androgynous Persona 3. Women and Selfhood-Sara Teasdale and the Passionate Virgin Persona 4. Women and Aggression- Elinor Wylie and the Woman Warrior Persona 5. Women and Time-H.D. and the Greek Persona 6. Women on the Market-Edna St. Vincent MillayOs Body Language 7. Women and the Retreat to the Mind-Louise Bogan and the Stoic Persona 8. The Sound of Nightingales Notes Index