H. D.'s Fragment 68 (For me, neither the honey nor the bee)

I quite liked this poem. This is mostly because it is a shout out to Sappho, who is like the Ultimate Lesbian. Sappho often in the pieces of her poetry found talked about how painful her love and desire for another woman could be. H. D. does this here as well in the lines 20–24. Within this same poem, she talks about the pain of being with a man, but it is not the pain of desire. I believe this to be a physical pain that is accompanied with intercourse. For H.D., this pain is not pleasurable. I think here she eschews men, wants women, but can't really have women because of society's constraints, and so she asks for death. This is supported by the epigraph that opens the poem "... even in the house of Hades" which of course represents the underworld and hell.