sylvia plath quotes Flashcards
what quote in elm shows that the tree knows what shes going through
‘i know the bottom’
what quote in elm uses a metaphor to describe love
‘love is a shadow
what quote in elm contains repetition that shows her loneliness
‘echoing echoing’
what quote in elm shows the tree taunting her because of her loneliness
‘it has gone of like a horse
what quote in elm contains imagery of a stormy night
‘this is rain now, this big hush’
what quote in elm shows the storm destroyed the tree with a simile
‘now i break up in pieces that fly about like clubs’
what quote in elm contains repetition that highlights her despair
‘i let her go, i let her go’
what quote in elm depicts her dark thoughts as an insidious being
‘i am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me’
‘all day i feel its soft feathery turnings its malignity’
what quote in elm refers to the evil entity wanting love
‘nightly it flaps out looking with its hooks for something to love’
what quote in elm contains eery repetition
‘that kill that kill that kill’
what quote from poppies in july personifies the poppies
‘do you do no harm’
what quote from poppies in july depicts the poppies as fire and evil
‘little hell flames’
‘you flicker’
what quote from poppies in july shows plath wants to feel pain
‘i put my hands in the flame nothing burns’
‘if i could bleed or sleep’
‘if my mouth could marry a hurt like that’
what quote in poppies in july shows plath is isolated and alone
‘in this glass capsule’
what quote from poppies in july shows contrast between a regular persons depiction of a poppy and plaths
‘and it exhausts me to watch you’
what quote from child contains imagery of the life she wants her child to have
‘i want to fill it with colours and ducks’
‘april snowdrop’
‘stalk without wrinkle’
‘grand and classical’
what quote from child shows that plath sees herself as an obstacle to her childs life
‘not this troublous wringing of hands’
‘ceiling without a star’
what quote from arrival of the beebox contains imagery
‘swarmy feeling of african hands’
‘it is like a roman mob’
what quote from child with rhyme shows the innocence of the child by almost making it sound like a nursery rhyme
‘the zoo of the new’
what quote from arrival of the beebox contains a more disturbing metaphors
‘coffin of a midget’
what quote from arrival of the bee box describes the box with an unsettling image of it
‘there are no windows’
‘there is only a little grid no exit’
what quotes from arrival of the bee box shows that the noise the bees make are her dark thoughts
‘it is the noise that appals me most of all’
‘unintelligible syllables’
‘furious latin’
what quotes from arrival of the bee box show that plath has grown in confidence
‘i am no source of honey so why should they turn on me’
‘i will set them free’
‘moon suit and funeral veil’
