• Episode 99 - Gretel in Darkness (Poem)

  • Mar 22 2023
  • Length: 6 mins
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Episode 99 - Gretel in Darkness (Poem)

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  • ‘Gretel in Darkness’ is a 1975 poem by Louise Glück exploring trauma. The poem is a dramatic monologue spoken by Gretel, the little girl from the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel. In the poem, Gretel directly addresses the readers/listeners and Hansel, and offers her intimate thoughts reflecting on how she is haunted psychologically by the memory of the witch she killed, in order to save herself and her brother Hansel.
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