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The Fruit
One of the strongest images in this poem is the image of ripened (perhaps even over-ripened) fruit hanging on the trees. The heat has had its way with pears and grapes—they are ripe and ready to fall—but our speaker imagines that the dense heat and humidity are buoying the fruits up. H.D. is employing hyperbole here; obviously, no amount of humidity is stronger than gravity. But that's the power of the image that H.D. creates. Even an impossible image is incredibly vivid in this poem.
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