Hey there Day! Alex here for my first review in a long time!
Wow! Lots and lots of really interesting language in this poem! Pretty much every phrase seemed thought out and planned. I also love how the whole thing is actually a message about (I think) how beauty in the world is admired but then forgotten, ignored and destroyed after we have got bored of it or start taking it for granted.
The second stanza I think was very interesting device wise. You included lots of references to other stories like Venus and Proserpine (One roman the other greek right?). Usually so many doesn't work in one place but I think picking out the most defining feature from each of them really works in showing the beauty of the person.
To be honest their isn't a huge amount to improve about this! I feel like a few lines felt a bit- cut off such as:
It was a bright, fresh morn;
I stepped outside
That's just my personal opinion though. I also think "stepped" is a little bit out of place in when in a poem containing such adventurous, of lack of a better word, vocabulary. Maybe wandered, stride (I quite like this one to amplify the expectancy of the person) or danced.
Overall, very good poem!
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