H.D. masterfully reinvents dense, poetic verse. The lines have a regenerative quality which combine life and death, echoing similar characteristics of T.S. Eliot's poetry. Between H.D.'s focus on the spiritual and physical, the circle of life, quite simply, reveals itself in the recreation of old things into new and the everlasting similarities which the new maintains from the old. 
 H.D.'s poetry and the readers' notes by Aliki Barnstone in this text give me insight into the creative process and the function of a single poem. This text says to me, "Create, but Destroy."