Ejemplos de uso de asphodel
1. He quotes William Carlos Williams‘ poem Asphodel, That Greeny Flower: "It is difficult to get the news from poems/ yet men die miserably every day/ for lack/ of what is found there." He shrugs.
2. Permission to reprint/republish Writing from the underworld, where she has grown bored with the fields of asphodel ("I would have preferred a few hyacinths"), Penelope makes a smart, pungent, but perhaps not entirely reliable narrator. (Could anyone really have slept through the slaughter of 100 or so men and 12 women?) Atwood ("The Handmaid‘s Tale") is most concerned about those 12 women Penelope‘s maids – whom Odysseus had hanged upon his return.