Sheep In Fog

Question 1

Who wrote sheep in fog

Answer 1

Sylvia Plath

Question 2

When was sheep in fog published and in what collection

Answer 2

Wrote in 1963 and published posthumously in 1965 in Ariel

Question 3

What the theme of sheep in fog

Answer 3

Isolation

Chaos

Question 4

What is the structure of sheep in fog

Answer 4

Tercets with 5 stanzas
No rhyme no scheme
Spondees AOU monotone effect

Question 5

What is the form of sheep in fog

Answer 5

Confessional poetry

Dramatic monologue

Question 6

What is the tone of sheep in fog

Answer 6

Depressive tone

Question 7

Quick techniques in sheep in fog

Answer 7

Personification “the hills step off”
3 spondees, “horse the colour of rust”
Colour imagery decay statis
Metaphor for “a flower left out” can relate to how shes suffered for long enough and is started to decay
Allusion “fatherless” death of otto in 1940

all imagery alludes to her depressive era

Question 8

Quick overview of sheep in fog

Answer 8

The poets watching everyone leave her
Uses nature to show how she is struggling mentally brain fog like sheep she is a social creature and cant live in isolation, shes searching for help while everything closes in around her

Question 9

What is the context of sheep in fog

Answer 9

• Otto died in 1940 “fatherless”
• wrote in the coldest month of london for over 100 years, she’s coping with breakdown of marriage
• during severe depression in same year as her suicide “God, but life is lonliness despite all the opiates”