The arrival of the bee box Flashcards
Who wrote the arrival bee box
Sylvia Plath
When was the arrival of the bee box wrote and published
1962 published posthumously in 1965 in the Ariel collection.
What is the theme of the arrival of the bee box
Nature
Depression
Trapped
Control
What is the tone of the Arrival of the bee box
Questioning
Apprehensive
Scared
Hopeful
What is the structure of the Arrival of the Bee box
No defined rhyme scheme.
Start of poem contains half rhyme and then regains full rhyme as she gains control
Regular Quintents suggesting control
Orphan line
What is the form of the Arrival of the Bee Box
Dramatic monologue
Narrational
What is the quick context of the Arrival of the bee box
Wrote after a bad trip to Ireland at 4 in the morning before her children woke.
Plath and Hughes tended a Hive of Italian hybrid bees at court green in 1962
“I desire things that will destroy me in the end”
What is a quick overview of the Arrival of the bee box
describes the tension between a speaker and her chaotic mind, along with her inability to control her thought patterns.
She gets a delivery of bees which she is scared to open as shes worried theyll be too much for her to control
She considers on how to deal with this through hiding them, getting rid of them or look after them to which she decides she will attempt to take care of them
What are quick techniques of the Arrival of the Bee box
Half Rhyme - “square as a chair” Shows her trying to control.
Dark descriptions “Coffin” sets depressing tones
Slave metaphor “Feeling of African hands” Shows how she feels that she is a slave to her thoughts
Metaphor of the box- Shows her confinements within her own mind, her thoughts are represented.
