Sylvia Plath Flashcards
drank my
blood for a year
Every woman
adores a Fascist
like a fat
gold watch
the big
striptease
out of the ashes i
rise with my red hair
your bald cry
took its place among the elements
I am no more
your mother
the peanut
crunching crowd
What is Mushrooms about?
The oppressed rising and revolting
soft..(mushrooms)
fists insist on
we shall by morning
inherit the Earth (last line of mushrooms)
Where does we shall by morning come from and its meaning?
Comes from the Bible when they say the meek shall inherit the Earth. (being weak=not necessarily bad)
human characteristics given to mushrooms
soft fists, our toes our nose
and in me
an old woman rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish
then she
turns to those liars the candle or moon
Spinster examples of semantic field of war
wilderness border withdrew barricade
with curse
fist threat or love either
inert
as a shoelace
going under the
chainmail, old jewels smouldering there
skin doesnt
have roots it peels away as easily as paper
Let her
die there (face lift)
Dying
is an art like everything else
Daddy I have
had to kill you. You died before i had time
there’s a stake
in your fat black heart
