Louise Glück

LitCharts guides for works by Louise Glück

Explore LitCharts poetry guides for works by Louise Glück. Each guide offers line-by-line analysis, exploration of poetic devices, and helpful resources for studying Louise Glück's poetry.

Gretel in Darkness

Louise Glück's “Gretel in Darkness” (first published in her 1975 collection The House on Marshland) explores trauma through the lens of the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel." The Gretel of this poem ... view guide

The Wild Iris

"The Wild Iris," first published in a 1992 collection of the same name, is Louise Glück's poem of death, rebirth, and transformation. The poem's speaker is an iris, a flower that has endured death ... view guide

Witchgrass

Louse Glück's "Witchgrass" first appeared in her 1992 book The Wild Iris, a collection in which personified plants talk (and sometimes talk back) to a gardener. This poem's speaker is the titular "... view guide