The woman's illiteracy is the situation compared to a pen being bent before a story is completed in the third stanza of "Blind."
What happens in the poem "Blind"?
In the poem "Blind," by Fatima Naoot, a woman who used to be blind can suddenly see after undergoing surgery. Being used to listening to books being red to her, the woman now must face a new reality.
She can see, but that does not mean she can read. She is illiterate, and that causes her to be in pain, to struggle, like a "pen bent before completing the story." She has no choice now but to learn.
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