The line plays on the idea of choice and unconscious desire especially in considering more modern version of the Persephone myth that frame it more explicitly as the rape of Persephone by Hades.
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Demeter roams the earth looking for Persephone and refuses to let the earth produce as she mourns the loss of her daughter. This poem is about the extinction of life as we know it because of our own neglect and conscious destruction.
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