In the Green Wood

Volume 35 Number 2
Author(s):
Eden Wales Freedman
Abstract:

This poem details a child’s sexual assault in a forest, which the speaker compares—through the use of Biblical quotation—to Jesus’s passion (torture, crucifixion, and death). Words and phrases that appear in italics are taken directly from the Bible.

Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jfemistudreli.35.2.18

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