Plath Flashcards
Morning Song, Objectifying the baby
“Love set you going like a fat gold watch”
Morning Song, Objectification, Uncertainty
“new statue”…“nakedness Shadows our safety”
Morning Song, Uncertainty
“stand blankly as walls”
Morning Song, Motherhood
“I’m no more your mother Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect it’s own slow Effacement at the winds hand”
Child, Innocence of Childhood
“Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing I want to fill it with color and ducks The zoo of the new”
Child, Protect her children from the world
“Not this troublous Wringing of hands, this dark ceiling without a star
Arrival of the Beebox, nature of the bees, nested metaphor,
“With the swarmy feeling of African hands Minute and shrunk for export”
Arrival of the Beebox, inability to control thoughts
“It is like a Roman mob” “I am not a Caesar”
Arrival of the Beebox, noise of the bees
“It is the noise that appalls me most of all The unintelligible syllables”
Mirror, Place of Women
“… reflect it faithfully. She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.”
Mirror, Place of Women
“In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman”
Times are Tidy, Social Commentary
“There’s no career in the venture Of riding against the lizard”
The Times are Tidy, Social commentary
“But the children are better for it”
