What is Louise Glück's central idea about myth?
Myth is not a relic; it is a living structure, a framework through which we continue to understand ourselves and our deepest impulses. The old stories, the Greek myths in particular, provided me with a grammar of suffering and survival. They offered archetypes that resonated with the primal forces within us—the violence, the longing, the relentless will to persist. I used them not as decoration, but as a lens to refract contemporary experience, to reveal the ancient patterns that persist in the small violences of family, in the unforgiving cycles of nature. The body remembers these old narratives.
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