Subject, using repetition to emphasize the extent of her obsession with the past. A grown-up Gretel meets the witch in the forest and gropes in more darkness thereafter Who is that witch, is she her future tense Is her cry is the precursor of her own A reality strikes the inner chord and the mind sways away, and it forces Gretel to introspect to delve deep in the. It is ironic that her brother, for whom she committed the murder, goes on with his life without a care in the world, as if the murder never happened. Gretel in Darkness: An Elegy or a Quest Introduction. Gluck's poem shows Gretel as a tormented adult so haunted by the act of murder she committed that it consumes her every thought. Gretel in Darkness: An Elegy or a Quest Introduction.
Moreover, by using such descriptions as the witch's tongue shriveling into gas, "the spires of that gleaming kiln," and the fire in the black forest, and by interspersing them throughout the poem, Glück conveys her speaker's repetitive recollections of the same incident, each time describing a different facet of a chronologically simultaneous occurrence, the burning of the witch. After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate. he glimpsed frightening shadows and evil eyes around them in the darkness. This repetition is Glück's poetic device used to convey Gretel's persistent mental return to the event. the little Hansel and Gretel and their encounter with the evil witch. While comparing the two poems, Gretel in Darkness by Louise Gluck and Hansel and Gretel by Anne Sexton with the original Brothers Grimm tale Hansel and. She writes of her memory of the forest where the burning took place that "it is real, real."
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