Blog Entry 8

Continuing with the essay 3, “worm” and “visage” have symbolic meaning in the first line. Worm is a representative symbol of death or evil. It is often related to lowness, vileness and hatred (curriculum cooperation). The definitions of visage are face or appearance of a person. In this poem, it refers to Medusa’s dreadful face which turns people into stones. In line 1, the author says, “like a worm-fretted visage from the tomb.” He is trying to describe the face of a Medusa, who looks like an anxious evil. By adding this in the very first line of the poem, he informs the readers about the significance of Medusa’s appearance.

Work Cited
http://www.curriculum.edu.au/verve/_resources/Symbolism.pdf