There She Is
BY LINDA GREGG
When I go into the garden, there she is. | Allusion to Eden
The specter holds up her arms to show | specter=ghost, but also ‘a threat’
that her hands are eaten off.| What do hands symbolize? Eve’s hands taking apple?
She is silent because of the agony. |Double meaning of silence…(Eve)
There is blood on her face.
I can see she has done this to herself. |Again, Eve was guilty…
So she would not feel the other pain.
And it is true, she does not feel it.
She does not even see me.
It is not she anymore, but the pain itself
that moves her. I look and think
how to forget. How can I live while she
stands there? And if I take her life
what will that make of me? I cannot
touch her, make her conscious.
It would hurt her too much.
I hear the sound all through the air
that was her eating, but it is on its own now,
completely separate from her. I think
I am supposed to look. I am not supposed |Turn —from horror to understanding
to turn away. I am supposed to see each detail
and all expression gone. My God, I think,
if paradise is to be here
it will have to include her. | Why? What does inclusion signify?
Allusions to Eve = allegory! (use this term in analysis!)
The image of the ghost is used to represent Eve’s impact…the haunting aspects of Christian culture…
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