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when I first evaluated the poem Original sin, it stood out to me as a woman reliving her past. she showed in the poem how she grew up in a small town and soon moved away to continue her education in Harvard university. when she was studying there she got pregnant and had to move back home. At first it was a disappointment to her grandfather. she grew up as an Orphan without both parents. she was raised by her grandfather who had to pay for her to come back home to have the baby, but horrid new came to them when she had a miscarriage and she soon learned that she couldn't have anymore children. she soon became bitter toward other people's children when laughter was heard. in the end when the poem states" like a mother who rises at night to seek a childhood picture; or it goes to the backyard and stands like an old horse cold in the pasture. But when there were the class review of the poem I learned that the poem is about the write Robert Penn Warren who grew up poor and parent less who was raised by his grandfather and when he got older he went to Harvard, he also had a lot of death in the family a few of his siblings died and he became an only child with a lot of hate in his heart and  was also obsessed with death. he also grew up in a christian based family but he never trusted religion and believed that god didn't exist