Averno Reading Journal

The time period appears fairly modern. The tone is fairly solemn and kind of depressing. The narrator is a female who is looking back at her relationships with other, she values expressing herself and remembering memories. The Persephone narrator’s relationship with the earth is a little different than what we are normally used to seeing. There is a fair amount of strain in that Persephone is in hell and resentment by the earth. Persephone appears naïve. The final verse refers to her eating the pomegranate seeds and dually the blood caused by her rape. She second guesses her self when she says ““Did I say ‘suffered’? That was my parents’ way of explaining tastes that seemed to them” The author chose to say the passage to show the way in which she went about coming to the conclusion about her word choice. In part one, Persephone is more of a younger naïve girl as opposed to part two in which she is more mature, less naïve and wishes she still was that young child with her innocence. I don’t understand the myth differently at all, but I did enjoy looking at it from her different perspective, and I think I may look at the myth differently now because I have multiple perspectives, but there is no change of understanding.