Rough Draft

Plot: Mercury was a god from Greece who made Minerva mad. During the maiden's festival for Minerva he came down to see Minerva and he told her that he had come to see her sister. Mercury was also a messenger of Jove the god of of love. To this Minerva became very mad and started secreting green and she became hideous. To this she then looked at him and he turned into stone.

Hermeneutics: The parallelism in this poem are Minerva's eyes. In the beginning of the story she is using her eyes for the greater good to watch over the Virgins of Greece which is a nice thing. In the end of the story though she uses her eyes for the worst and she turns Mercury into a statue.

Semic: The connotation in this story is that sometimes what we do doesn't turn out the way we want it to. There are some things or people that get in our way and we are frozen and cannot do what we intended to do. This can even be a bad person being victorious as well, because love doesn't always win.

Symbolic: A symbol in the story is darkness because in the story it says that darkness lasts all of her days. In real life though it does not last all the day, it only lasts a part of the day. This is symbolizing that Minerva is evil and the darkness which refers to Lucifer's rule.

Reference: The Minerva's temple of Virgins in Greece

Diagetic: ?