Medusa was a monster who grew snakes as hair and was capable of turning people into stone at any moment in time she was one of the three gorgon sisters

 

She called her poem Medusa because the poem is the medusa’s perspective.

 

We know medusa was jealous and the poem brings the jealousy to life and how “love gone bad”. she was jealous that her greek god wanted more than just one lover. however, medusa thought otherwise and wanted him all for herself.

She was originally a golden-haired, fair maiden, who, as a priestess of Athena however, after being wooed by Poseidon and falling in love with him, she forgot her vows and married him. For this offence, she was punished by the goddess. Each wavy lock of hair was changed into a venomous snake; her once gentle, love-inspiring eyes turned into blood-shot, furious orbs, whilst her former milk-white skin assumed a loathsome greenish tinge.

Seeing herself transformed into such a horrible creature, Medusa fled her home, never to return. She them became evil. In her despair, she fled to Africa, where, while wandering restlessly from place to place, young snakes dropped from her hair; that is how, according to the ancient Greeks, Africa became a hotbed of venomous reptiles. With the curse of Athena upon her, she turned into stone whomever she gazed upon, till at last, after a life of nameless misery, deliverance came to her in the shape of death, at the hands of Perseus.