Gabriela Mistral's Madwomen

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Across
  1. 2. What lies at her feet and shoulders; represents her detachment; untouchable
  2. 5. A powerful, swirling force that pulls everything into it
  3. 8. Natural forces that guide “him” forward, see stanza 5/line 23- 25 of the poem
  4. 9. The friend who denied her, yet she had gone too far to care
  5. 12. State of being alone
  6. 13. Let him not see my door, tall and red as a _____
  7. 15. A ghost, an illusion of something that once was
  8. 16. What she closes with ax blows; the ______ of happiness
Down
  1. 1. The force that defines her; never cooling; always consuming
  2. 3. Sweet, golden bee nectar.
  3. 4. A word she “babbles,” symbolizing emptiness
  4. 6. A shade of red
  5. 7. Now we live free from the time of _____ veyes
  6. 10. Greek mythology, a woman with living snakes in place of hair
  7. 11. Another word for "mad"
  8. 14. The last, dying remnants of a once-burning flame