Reflection: Gretel in Darkness

The poem of Gluck uses the story of Hansel and Gretel but the message of the poem is according to her as she delivers her message or the message of the poem thru the used of the story of Hansel and Gretel. The persona of the poem is the author or the narrator. She used the character of Gretel to express the message of the poem.
Though this poem uses the story of Hansel and Gretel it still has its own story because the poem is about a trauma that Gretel experienced from the hand of the witch. It expresses her loneliness and her lost of being alone.
This poem shows us what trauma can do to us. Experiencing such things we will never forget. How this change one’s life from a normal life. The poem tries to show us the effect of trauma in our life if we experience things that we don’t want to happen in our life.