So devastatingly good Morgan! Dido's tale is one of woe but the main story almost always focuses just on Aeneas (I think), so this perspective is most welcome. Also love the actual Virgil references, and the shade you threw at Aeneas: "After all, you left a city aflame once before." 🙂↕️
This is feral. I felt angry reading it, in the best way. You don’t let Dido be reduced to tragedy or romance, you let her burn, curse, remember, and reclaim the ending. The way you frame sacrifice versus suicide hit hard; it completely shifts the moral weight of the myth. And the second-person address? Brutal. By the time you get to “pyromaniac,” it felt like the poem had teeth. I didn’t feel like I was reading a retelling—I felt like I was witnessing a reckoning.
So devastatingly good Morgan! Dido's tale is one of woe but the main story almost always focuses just on Aeneas (I think), so this perspective is most welcome. Also love the actual Virgil references, and the shade you threw at Aeneas: "After all, you left a city aflame once before." 🙂↕️
This is feral. I felt angry reading it, in the best way. You don’t let Dido be reduced to tragedy or romance, you let her burn, curse, remember, and reclaim the ending. The way you frame sacrifice versus suicide hit hard; it completely shifts the moral weight of the myth. And the second-person address? Brutal. By the time you get to “pyromaniac,” it felt like the poem had teeth. I didn’t feel like I was reading a retelling—I felt like I was witnessing a reckoning.
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"women's hearts are lethal weapons, the men start wars yet troy hates helen" - maisie peters
one of my favorite lyrics of ALL TIME. honored you thought of it reading this!
“A woman is an ever fickle
and changing thing.”
Yes
Thank God
It is what makes women so fascinating.
woww I really really liked this it’s so devastating and beautiful
that was the goal. thank you so much 🤍
love the atmosphere of this!
omg thank you!
this is incredible writing wow
this means so much. thank you!
This is beautiful and powerful. I love all the Classical references! Very well-constructed.
thank you! i was hoping they’d be picked up on <3
In Stevie Nicks’ words: You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you!!!
Ah, this is fantastic. And I learned something new too :)
omg now that’s goign to be stuck in my head, lol. and thank you!
Im so glad!
Gorgeous work!
this is so kind. thank you!
Wow, this poem struck me.