Sylvia Plath Poems Flashcards
1
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Daddy
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Concern her troubled relationship with her authoritarian father and her feelings of betrayal when he died
2
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You’re
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A mother addressing her newborn baby, conveying both eagerness and anxiety
Affectionate
3
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Tulips
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A speaker feels both desire to remain in the peaceful world of the hospital and the need to return to the demands of normal life
Competing urges to get well and stay sick, or even to live and die
Tulips in a “loud” red colour represent the pain of life itself
4
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Mirror
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Point of view of a personified mirror
Explores Plath’s own fears regarding aging and death
Woman repeatedly looks in the mirror searching for a version that reflects the person she feels inside, but only finds an increasingly older woman
