Summary Of The Halo That Would Not Light By Brock-Broido

In “The Halo That Would Not Light”, Brock-Broido depicts a woman’s decent into insanity to convey the idea that insanity is greater than reality. Through her use of symbolism and imagery, Brock-Broido is successfully able reveal a woman’s loss of purity to convey how harsh reality truly is. In the second and third stanzas, Broido states, “He dropped your tiny body In the scarab-colored hollow Of a carriage, left you like a finch Wrapped in its nest of linens wound”. This depiction of a fragile body, similar to that of a child, being abused and left helpless is a representation of a girl being raped. The “He” in this situation was her attacker, and he left her stranded in a carriage similar to how a finch is stranded by its mother in their