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Hymn To Demeter Analysis
In Hymn to Demeter, Persephone is taken by Hades who is the God of the underworld. In the hymn, it says, “He seized her against her will and on his golden chariot carried her off wailing.”(Hymn to Demeter 23) Persephone was in a meadow, picking flowers when she was caught off guard and snatched away in a blink of an eye. The reason why she was taken was not her fault at all but it was because Zeus, that she was taken away. Helios, who is the God of the sun, was approached by Demeter to ask him of her daughter’s disappearance and he told her, “No one else… is responsible except cloud-gathering Zeus, who gave her to Hades, his own brother, to be called his youthful wife. He seized her and with his horses led her wailing loudly down the misty

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