Sylvia Plath Flashcards

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1
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Love..

Morning Song

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Love set you going like a fat gold watch

Simile, adjective, sybolism, Imagery

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Our voices

Morning Song

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Our voices echo, magnifing in your arrival, New statue in a dafty museum

Intimate atomsphere, assonance

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I am no more

Morning song

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I am no more you mother, than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own effacement at the winds hand

natural imagery

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One cry

Morning Song

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One cry and i stumble from bed, cow heavy…

Epithet, self decreciating humour

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And now you try

Morning Song

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And now you try your handfull of notes, voices rise like ballons

Symbloism, atomsphere

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Little

Poppies in July

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Little poppies, little hell flames

tone, metaphore, repitition, religious imagery

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I put my

Poppies in July

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I put my hands among the flames, nothing burns

symbolism, imagery

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A mouth just

Poppies in July

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A mouth just bloodied, little bloody skirts

Tone, image

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If my

Poppies in July

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If my mouth could marry a hurt like that

conditional sense, symbolism

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Where are your

Poppies in July

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Where are your opioids, your naseous capsues?

Apostrophe, tone

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But colourless

Poppies in July

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But colourless, colourless

Repition

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I ordered

Arrival of the Bee box

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I ordered this clean wood box

Imagery, adj, simple words

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The box is

Arrival of the Bee box

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The box is dangerous, i have to live with it

Atomsphere, tone, symbolises

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yet I

Arrival of the Bee box

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Yet i cannot keep away from it

Personal pronoun, symbolism

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Unitelligble

Arrival of the Bee box

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Unitelligble syllables

Onomatipia- cathotic sounds of bees, metaphore

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They can be send

Arrival of the bee box

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They can be send back. They can die, I need feed them nothing, I am the owner

Change in tone,Personal pronoun,Declaration sentence.

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Like a roman mob

Arrival of the Bee box

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Like a roman mob, small, but my god together

Allegory, expressive language,imagery

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The box

Arrival of the Bee box

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the box is only tempoary

simple sentence, ambiguity

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Techniques

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Stylistic features, literary elements, writing elements, poetry techniques