Plath Flashcards
1
Q
Withering heights nature is powerful
A
The wind
Pours by like destiny, bending
Everything in one direction
Stanza 2
2
Q
Wuthering heights she is out of place in nature
A
The sky leans on me, me, the one upright
Among the horizontals.
5th and last stanza
3
Q
Withering heights starting lines
A
"The horizons ring me like faggots Tilted and disparate, and always unstable Touched by a match they might warm me ... But they only dissolve and dissolve Like a series of promises"
4
Q
Lady Lazarus
A
Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
5
Q
Lady Lazarus
Starting lines
A
I have done it again
One year in every ten
I manage it –
A sort of walking miracle, my skin
Bright as a nazi lampshade
6
Q
Lady Lazarus
Alluring
A
The big strip tease
Gentlemen, ladies
These are my hands
My knees
7
Q
Lady Lazarus last lines
A
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.
