New Meaning of Broumas' Little Red Riding HoodThere's more to Broumas' Little Red Riding Hood than meets the eye, or maybe it's exactly there that analysis comes into play because the formalist approach to literature analysis involves examining a piece of literature and stating what is obviously there. The formalist approach does give the work a deeper meaning than it originally had, but the details are generally clear and easily discernible. Generally, they are very obvious and therefore easily overlooked. The formalist approach can be limited to reporting the continued use of a word, but after observing this fact, a new meaning must also be found. The reader is able to develop a broader understanding of Broumas's Little Red Riding Hood after using the formalist approach to delve deeper into the poem. The formalist approach reveals that Broumas's use of repetition and word choice gives additional meaning to his poem Little Red Riding Hood. The easiest way to begin using the formalist approach is to first read the poem, paying close attention to repetition, pauses, and description. this may not have been noticed on first reading. The use of this technique on Little Red Riding Hood reveals an emphasis on the ancient word. Broumas writes, I am growing old, I am growing old Without you, Mother, landscape of my heart. The use of old can be read in two different ways. One approach might place more emphasis on the repetition of the old, while the other might orient it toward the “old without you.” Regardless, we realize that the author is growing old without his mother. However, reading it the first way adds about ten extra years to her life because she is very old. The second way can be interpreted to literally mean that the author is much older without her mother. The description of his mother suggests a strict parent. It takes a lot of work to lay out a garden, and if the mother laid out her daughter's heart, it took a lot of work and a lot of rules. Broumas continues the poem with a description of his mother giving birth. She uses expressions such as "stretching like a triangle", "skin stretched over an arc" and "straining against the pain" to reveal to the reader that the work is not easy, quite the contrary, because it is intense and very difficult..