An innovative modernist American writer, Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961) wrote under her initials in a career that stretched from 1909 to 1961. H.D., most well known for her lyric and epic poetry, also wrote novels, memoirs, short stories, essays, reviews, a children’s book, and translations. An American woman who lived her adult life abroad, H.D. was engaged in the formalist experimentation that preoccupied much of her generation. A range of thematic concerns resonates through her writing: the role of the poet, the civilian representation of war, material and mythologized ancient cultures, the role of national and colonial identity, lesbian and queer sexuality, and religion and spirituality.
یکی از معروف ترین شعرهای جنبش "تصویرگرایی" که اصول این جنبش در اون به خوبی دیده میشه. اینکه هر کلمه و جمله بار معنایی زیادی داشته باشه و شعر در حین کوتاه بودن معانی و برداشت های زیادی بشه ازش کرد. این در تضاد با شعرهای طولانی ویکتوریایی هستش.
Oread گوینده ی شعر، تصوری از دریا نداره و دریا رو مانند کوهستان خودش توصیف میکنه. شاید اون عاشق دریاس و میخواد با اون یکی بشه