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Plath Themes Flashcards

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The Arrival of the Bee Box

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  1. Search for Genetic Security (coffin, square baby)
  2. Mistrust of Self (2nd stanza)
  3. The Blurred Line Between Control and Being Controlled (7th stanza, sweet god)
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Words

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  1. Immortality of Language and Art (echoes travelling off from centre)
  2. Criticism of Analysis (fixed stars which govern a life)
  3. Catharsis
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Kindness

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  1. Mistrust of Human Empathy (smoke/steam)
  2. The Connection Between Art and Anguish (blood jet)
  3. The Journey Towards Faith in Humanity (roses - previous poems)
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Poppies in October

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  1. Detachment and Dissociation (1st line, mid-sentence)
  2. Death as Peace (end of 1)
  3. Beauty of Nature and Disbelief in Being Given Such Beauty (final stanza)
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Cut

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  1. Pain as a Thrill (1st line, tone, elongated vowels)
  2. Betrayal of the Mind and Body (6/7 pop culture)
  3. Masochistic Guilt (final line)
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Lady Lazarus

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  1. Death and Resurrection (t, st stanza)
  2. The Objectification of Suffering in Art (I/it’s repition)
  3. Gender and Oppression (final stanza, pheonix symbolism)
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Sheep in Fog

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  1. Self-deprication
  2. Misguided intentions
  3. Pointlessness of human life
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Tulips

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  1. Dissociation and seperation from emotion
  2. Crushing Confinement
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You’re

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  1. The glorification of birth and human life
  2. Uncertainty in the future (no rhyme scheme)
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The Applicant

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  1. The unecessary and unattainable expectations of gender steretypes (4/5 metaphor)
  2. Divisionism and its exacerbation by consumerism (7)
    opening tone
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Night Dances

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  1. The Wide Expanse of the Universe
  2. The Irretrievability of Childhood Memories
  3. Motherhood and the Celebration of Potential Life
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Balloons

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  1. Beauty in the ordinary (3/4)
  2. The Sudden Imposition of Reality (5/6 enjm)
  3. The Cleansing nature of Motherhood (clear as water)
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The Moon and the Yew Tree

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  1. Inner Process of Grief (1st line)
  2. The Struggle to Find a Faith System (not sweet like Mary, the face of the effigy)
  3. Loss of parental guidance (final stanza, moon/blackness)
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Daddy

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  1. Oppressive Nature of a Father/Daughter Relationship (adore + fascist/brute)
  2. The Believed Freedom from the Oppression (i do i do)
  3. Death and its Spiritual Impact on the Living (vampire who drank my blood)
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Morning Song

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  1. Gradual Introduction of Emotion
  2. Powerful Catharsis of Motherhood
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Munich Mannequins

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  1. Deadening cruelty of objectification
  2. Motherhood and Femininity
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Nick and the Candlestick

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  1. Motherhood and the purpose of life
  2. Depletion and Exhaustion
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Letter in November

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  1. Love of independence and domesticity
  2. Guarding of the home

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