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Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral. Destiny Coalson. Fear ( 1945). I don’t want them to turn My little girl into a swallow. She would fly far away into the sky And never fly again to my straw bed, Or she would nest in the eaves Where I could not comb her hair. I don’t want them to turn

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Gabriela Mistral

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  1. GabrielaMistral DestinyCoalson

  2. Fear (1945) I don’t want them to turn My little girl into a swallow. She would fly far away into the sky And never fly again to my straw bed, Or she would nest in the eaves Where I could not comb her hair. I don’t want them to turn My little girl into a swallow. I don’t want them to make My little girl a princess. In tiny golden slippers How could she play in the meadow? And when night came, no longer Would she sleep at my side. I don’t want them to make My little girl a princess. and even less do I want them One day to make her a queen. They would put her on a throne Where I could not go to see her. And when nighttime came I could never rock her… I don’t want them to make My little girl a queen!

  3. Literary analysis She fears for daughter's loss of innocence. Each stanza represents a different time in her daughter's life, from infancy to teen to adult.The swallow is a Christian symbol, and the reference to straw bed alludes to the nativity. She pictures her daughter as pure as baby Jesus and doesn't want that tainted.The second stanza reveals her distrust in the fairy tale ending, and she wants her daughter to remain young at heart for as long as she can.The last stanza refers to her fear of losing her daughter when she grows up and gets married.

  4. Works cited • http://www.enotes.com/fear • http://www.ask.com/questions-about/Fear-by-Gabriela-Mistral • http://www.s9.com/images/portraits/20818_Mistral-Gabriela.jpg

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