Feb. 10, 2011 at 9:03am with 5 notes
ElektraElectraSopohoclesAnne CarsonSophokles
Finished: Electra. Sophocles. Translated by: Anne Carson Elektra: Oh my child, I thought I could save you. I thought I could send you beyond. But there is no beyond. You might as well have stayed that day to share your father’s tomb. Instead, somewhere, I don’t know where- suddenly alone you stopped- where death was. And I would have waited and washed you and lifted you  up from the fire, like a whitened coal.

Finished: Electra. Sophocles. Translated by: Anne Carson

Elektra:

Oh my child,

I thought I could save you.

I thought I could send you beyond.

But there is no beyond.

You might as well have stayed that day

to share your father’s tomb.

Instead, somewhere, I don’t know where-

suddenly alone you stopped-

where death was.

And I would have waited

and washed you

and lifted you 

up from the fire,

like a whitened coal.

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