Persephone falling

Notes on Rata Doves flummox Love Perseph integrity, Falling Based on the classic myth of Demeter and her missyfri stopping point Perseph genius (see Foreword), Dove creates a modern story of the event of Persephone capture by Hades. on that point is an overriding theme of danger and disobedience throughout the meter. The teen girls innocence, captured in the description of her as a beautiful narcissus is juxtaposed by her act of careless disobedience (she had strayed from the herd) when she refused to heed the warning of her parent.One cannot overlook the wordplay on the word herd at the end of the first stanza. There is an element of self- imposed danger versus the danger lurking around. In stanza one, the captor is conveyed as the devil lurking in the underworld waiting to take the unsuspecting victim sprung out Of the earth. Yet in stanza 2, the poem seems to apply near blame on the tike who does not pay attention to the warnings of a parent this is how easily the pit ope ns. This is how one foot sinks into the ground.One the one hand the peril comes about by the terrible prey that springs upon the helpless by surprise just as it is said in the saintly Bibles reference to he devil roaming around the earth as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. This reading of the poem with biblical reference is underscored by the name Hades in the Greek myth itself, as well as, the biblical reference is also seen in the line it is finished the words quoted in the New Testament church doctrine as Jesus final words after his crucifixion.On the other hand, in the last line of the poem, the nipper faces a demise brought about by her own failure to adhere to good advice (80 % of stanza 2). The victim puts herself in harms way. The final stage came by choice one foot sinks Further more(prenominal), Dove extends the threat to the susceptible by showing various ways by which a youth can be lured away.In go straight to school she speaks to the haphazard, playful child who is easily distracted and lingers away from her course. In dont answer to strangers she implies a more unsuspecting, innocent whose naivety could get her ensnared but in keep your eyeball down there appears the sexual connotation of the bold daring girl who abandons modesty with boldness and impudence. All of which can lead to an unfortunate circumstance.This poem is not a sonnet nor does it contain any particular create verbally scheme, however the sound and rhythm of the poetic is identified as one reads aloud the internal rhymes of flowers and others heard and herd in stanza 1 and the end rhymes of around, down ground in stanza 2. There is a unmistakable difference of tone between the two stanzas when the story telling voice of the persona is superseded by the watchful parent who already sees in the child the tendency to be wayward.