New critical Reading of the poem " There is a girl Inside".

A New Critical reading of this poem reveals that this poem is about the youth and sexuality hidden within an old woman. Though the speaker is old now, ' but she has very passionate desire inside. We analyses many formal elements of the poem in our close reading. There many images, symbols, similes and metaphors that gives meaning of the poem. Our analysis does not look for historical evidences of the author or the poem because New Criticism believes that the text itself 15 sufficient in the interpretation. So, we do not need to look for the author. ’ When we read the poem, we know that the speaker is an old woman. She says that there is a green girl inside her old body. The girl is randy as a wolf. She will not walk away or leave the old bones. Here, the first stanza makes it clear how the old woman' feels inside. We also know how passionate, uncontrolled and youthful she is. The girlhood inside her means that she has the very youthfulness hidden inside her apparently old body. Outwardly, she is old but inside, she feels the burning fire of her youthful hue. So, she says the girl inside her is randy as a wolf. This is very powerful simile that reveals her character inside. She is compared with the randy or sexually passionate woman. She is very lustful inside despite her old body. The speaker also says that the girl, inside her does not leave her or walk away. It means that her youthful self is not erased from her but it clings to her more firmly even in her senility. 

The speaker metaphorically says that the girl inside her is a green tree in the forest of kindling. It is also very meaningful because the metaphor ‘green tree’ also implies youthfulness. She is a green tree in the kindled forest. It means that her body is already ruined like a kindled forest but she is still young. , Not only that, she is a green girl in a used poet. Here, the speaker refers to her personality she is a poet who created this poem whoever she is. There is the feeling of a young girl in the overused old body. The used poet implies that she 18 old. . 

In the final stanza, she says that her lovers will harvest honey and thyme. It means that her lovers will get the taste of honey and thyme when they enjoy with her. The place of their celebration will be a wild wood. She likes to be Very wild in her celebration of the youth. It will fulfill all the wild wonders of her. So, the last stanza is about her celebration of the youthful love and the fulfillment of her desire. 

There are many images, symbols, similes and metaphors. Some of the words with special meanings are; ‘randy as a wolf’, bones, green tree, forest of kindling, green girl, used poet, patient as a nun, the second coming, gray hairs, blossom, harvesting, honey and thyme, wild woods, and the damn wonder. All these words have special meanings in our analysis. From the New Critical analysis, we come to conclusion that this poem shows the feeling of youthfulness within an old woman.