“Persephone” by Walter Wykes your laughter echoes still in that bright field where you played so carefree, a little goddess arms white as milk gathering flowers with your playmates when the earth shook and through the crumbling ground your monstrous lover burst an uninvited guest snatching you away plucking your innocence as you had plucked flowers only moments before how you must have cried out must have begged for your release when your mother learned of the abduction her grief stopped the earth, the moon, the stars in their tracks the world became eternal winter there was no consolation, no solace no moving on what an unexpected miracle when you returned to us a gift from the gods but you are not the same no longer that bright child a handful of seeds has sealed your fate and though all things flourish in your presence your laughter is colored by that other place, that dark lover and in your eyes cold winter reigns Wykes, Walter. “Persephone.” Black Cat Poems. Capella University, n.d. Web. 21 June 2011. Which archetype does Persephone exemplify in this poem? Ingénue Shrew Wicked Witch Heroine
