February 2011
3 posts
The Latin Lesson-
This poem is from a religious girls point of view who is in school. There are nuns and priests around her. She is studying religion and its text which is a reoccuring theme in the poem. A symbol in this poem is the eucalyptus tree and its leaves. They symbolize purity and beauty before they are crushed to scent their blankets. The poem then becomes morbid when she becomes...
January 2011
3 posts
