Poem Analysis:Two sisters of persephone

This poem has a literal side and mythical side to it meaning. The literal side would just be that it is about two sisters with different aspects. The mythical side could be referring to the two sides of Persephone to show the connections between "shade and light". In the first stanza, it introduces the two sisters, different as dark and light. One sister is very happy while the other is awfully depressed. In the second, …

…unable to decide which one she wanted to be. <Tab/>All in all, I consider this poem one of my favorites. From this poem, I learned that either you should live your life to its fullest or you go down miserable. The writer had sent this send this message in her poem by showing how one person had a great life while the other had a very depressed and horrible life.