sylvia plath quotes

Question 1

what quote in elm shows that the tree knows what shes going through

Answer 1

‘i know the bottom’

Question 2

what quote in elm uses a metaphor to describe love

Answer 2

‘love is a shadow

Question 3

what quote in elm contains repetition that shows her loneliness

Answer 3

‘echoing echoing’

Question 4

what quote in elm shows the tree taunting her because of her loneliness

Answer 4

‘it has gone of like a horse

Question 5

what quote in elm contains imagery of a stormy night

Answer 5

‘this is rain now, this big hush’

Question 6

what quote in elm shows the storm destroyed the tree with a simile

Answer 6

‘now i break up in pieces that fly about like clubs’

Question 7

what quote in elm contains repetition that highlights her despair

Answer 7

‘i let her go, i let her go’

Question 8

what quote in elm depicts her dark thoughts as an insidious being

Answer 8

‘i am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me’
‘all day i feel its soft feathery turnings its malignity’

Question 9

what quote in elm refers to the evil entity wanting love

Answer 9

‘nightly it flaps out looking with its hooks for something to love’

Question 10

what quote in elm contains eery repetition

Answer 10

‘that kill that kill that kill’

Question 11

what quote from poppies in july personifies the poppies

Answer 11

‘do you do no harm’

Question 12

what quote from poppies in july depicts the poppies as fire and evil

Answer 12

‘little hell flames’
‘you flicker’

Question 13

what quote from poppies in july shows plath wants to feel pain

Answer 13

‘i put my hands in the flame nothing burns’
‘if i could bleed or sleep’
‘if my mouth could marry a hurt like that’

Question 14

what quote in poppies in july shows plath is isolated and alone

Answer 14

‘in this glass capsule’

Question 15

what quote from poppies in july shows contrast between a regular persons depiction of a poppy and plaths

Answer 15

‘and it exhausts me to watch you’

Question 16

what quote from child contains imagery of the life she wants her child to have

Answer 16

‘i want to fill it with colours and ducks’
‘april snowdrop’
‘stalk without wrinkle’
‘grand and classical’

Question 17

what quote from child shows that plath sees herself as an obstacle to her childs life

Answer 17

‘not this troublous wringing of hands’
‘ceiling without a star’

Question 18

what quote from arrival of the beebox contains imagery

Answer 18

‘swarmy feeling of african hands’
‘it is like a roman mob’

Question 18

what quote from child with rhyme shows the innocence of the child by almost making it sound like a nursery rhyme

Answer 18

‘the zoo of the new’

Question 19

what quote from arrival of the beebox contains a more disturbing metaphors

Answer 19

‘coffin of a midget’

Question 20

what quote from arrival of the bee box describes the box with an unsettling image of it

Answer 20

‘there are no windows’
‘there is only a little grid no exit’

Question 21

what quotes from arrival of the bee box shows that the noise the bees make are her dark thoughts

Answer 21

‘it is the noise that appals me most of all’
‘unintelligible syllables’
‘furious latin’

Question 22

what quotes from arrival of the bee box show that plath has grown in confidence

Answer 22

‘i am no source of honey so why should they turn on me’
‘i will set them free’
‘moon suit and funeral veil’