 During the 1950s , H.D. wrote a considerable amount of poetry , most notably Helen in Egypt ( written between 1952 – 54 ) , an examination from a feminist point of view of a male @-@ centred epic poetry . H.D. used Euripides 's play Helen as a starting point for a reinterpretation of the basis of the Trojan War and , by extension , of war itself . This work has been seen by some critics , including Jeffrey Twitchell @-@ Waas , as H.D. ' s response to Pound 's Cantos , a work she greatly admired . Other poems from this period include Sagesse , Winter Love and Hermetic Definition . These three were published posthumously with the collective title Hermetic Definition ( 1972 ) . The poem Hermetic Definition takes as its starting points her love for a man 30 years her junior and the line ' so slow is the rose to open ' from Pound 's Canto 106 . Sagesse , written in bed after H.D. had broken her hip in a fall , serves as a kind of coda to Trilogy. being partly written in the voice of a young female Blitz survivor who finds herself living in fear of the atom bomb . Winter Love was written together with End to Torment and uses as narrator the Homeric figure of Penelope to restate the material of the memoir in poetic form . At one time , H.D. considered appending this poem as a coda to Helen in Egypt . 
