response to poem in class

If you know about what was going on in Russia at the time, then this poem will make sense to you. Hate was everywhere, resulting in a poor starving girl, with no choice about how her future will go. It is out of her reach. She is going through puberty, which in the poem seems to represent growth. The growth which normal teens will go through, but she will envy- as she grows skinner and skinner. With no choice, trying to survive survive. Its very sad, but never something to forget. Never.