sylvia` plath
Sylvia Plath
1-Poppies in October
The poem is a remarkable play of life and death, said and unsaid, hope and hopelessness. The poem is about an unusual time and its impact on the poetess, wherein she tells her agony and pain through the metaphor of nature. The poem brings before us a personal touch of the poetess’ life.
October is the beginning of winter when flowers withered away and trees are leafless. It is the coming up of a long and cold winter and is not a season of blooming and blossoming. It is the time of snow falling and how it is that some flowers or plants are cropping up. How can it be that plants of poppies are in full bloom in autumn?
The very first line “Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts” questions the system of nature that how can it be that sun clouds are not able to control or manage the skirts (opening of poppies). In the next line, the scene is completely changed and we are face to face with a pregnant woman who is happy with her red heart as she is going to give birth to a child. But her time before delivery is not a normal time, it is most sensitive as well as most terrible time of any woman s’ life, anything could happen. The 4th and 5th lines again take us back to the poppies and then it is regarded as the gift of God. “A gift, a love gift”.
The next three lines are entirely opposite from earlier lines as now the poppies are threatened by the carbon monoxides. The poetess also laments the indifference and callousness of people who are unable to enjoy the blooming of poppies.
“O my God, what am I”. This line takes us at once into the personal life of poetess. We are surprised that why she is putting herself in the poem: is she expressing grief about the heartlessness of the people around her or she is trying to tell us something about her own personal life. Is it not that poetess is juxtaposing herself before the blooming of poppies? The poem ends with the sad note that in the late month of October
1-Poppies in October
The poem is a remarkable play of life and death, said and unsaid, hope and hopelessness. The poem is about an unusual time and its impact on the poetess, wherein she tells her agony and pain through the metaphor of nature. The poem brings before us a personal touch of the poetess’ life.
October is the beginning of winter when flowers withered away and trees are leafless. It is the coming up of a long and cold winter and is not a season of blooming and blossoming. It is the time of snow falling and how it is that some flowers or plants are cropping up. How can it be that plants of poppies are in full bloom in autumn?
The very first line “Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts” questions the system of nature that how can it be that sun clouds are not able to control or manage the skirts (opening of poppies). In the next line, the scene is completely changed and we are face to face with a pregnant woman who is happy with her red heart as she is going to give birth to a child. But her time before delivery is not a normal time, it is most sensitive as well as most terrible time of any woman s’ life, anything could happen. The 4th and 5th lines again take us back to the poppies and then it is regarded as the gift of God. “A gift, a love gift”.
The next three lines are entirely opposite from earlier lines as now the poppies are threatened by the carbon monoxides. The poetess also laments the indifference and callousness of people who are unable to enjoy the blooming of poppies.
“O my God, what am I”. This line takes us at once into the personal life of poetess. We are surprised that why she is putting herself in the poem: is she expressing grief about the heartlessness of the people around her or she is trying to tell us something about her own personal life. Is it not that poetess is juxtaposing herself before the blooming of poppies? The poem ends with the sad note that in the late month of October