Plath - Medallion Flashcards

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A person’s psychological vulnerability due to vastness of nature

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-4 irregular stanzas

-How nature is structured but also erratic and unpredictable

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-Enjambment

-The flow of the winds as it bends destiny in one direction and the narrator cannot escape their impending fate

-Plath – White Goddess (Shamanic element) / Plath in her depression feels as if she is being forced into one direction – motif of being ensnared/ entrapped

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Critic

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Warren “her poems are full of colour when the tone is dark and comfortless”

-Through the malevolent depictions of nature

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The harsh emphatic opening “horizons ring me like faggots” evokes a metaphorical motif of darkness

-Monosyllabic personification “ring me” revitalizes potent imagery of someone having the life sucked from them

-Electroshock therapy

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-Hostile fairytale paradigm of the sheep’s “grandmotherly disguises” emphasises a predator – prey motif

-Infantile – Blakean innocence – Plath still feels trauma of father’s death and is like a small child trapped in a woman’s body

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-Grotesque “hard marbly baas” emulate a villainous quality

-Onomatopoeic monotone “baas” illustrate the isolation of the atmosphere and how the narrator is vulnerable and alone

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-Simile “small change” dramatizes the darkness that encapsulates the poem

-Civilization seems far away and distant

-Psychological suicide/ depression

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