“There goes that mad woman, dreaming of the eternal spring of life and the fields, though soon enough, all too soon, she will comb grey hair, and shivering, numb, see the hoarfrost shroud the meadow.” De Castro portrays her thoughts in a deeply visual manner, even though everything has an end to it or an “expiration date” De Castro sees things differently. There is a bright side to everything especially nature, and she only looks forward to the positive perspective of it, which is the long lasting beauty of it. I found it very interesting how she called herself an incurable sleepwalker, how everything she thinks and sees is just part of a dream which she continues to dwell on and can’t seem to live without that perspective, she’s trapped in her dream. “Stars and fountains and flowers, don’t murmur against my dreams; could I delight in you without them, could i live? Its almost as if she knows the truth but doesn’t want her surroundings to advise her of these truths, she’s sort of blinded by reality similar to Orgon in the play “Tartuffe” how he sees tartuffe as the most perfect and holy person even though everyone around him tells him otherwise, no matter what is being told to De Castro or what she sees she still can’t seem to handle or take in the truth.

Although keeping a positive outlook is the right thing to do it also makes sense to face reality. De Castro uses her poetic ways to illustrate how nature (Plants, Fountains, Stars, Birds) all seem to mock her and try to bring out the ugly truth about everything, such as death. Whether its a human or an object everything has its expiration date. De Castros writings are very poetic and portray a lot of imagery, which helps the reader visualize what is going on and get a better understanding.