Thursday, January 1, 2004

Poppies In July Comments

Rating: 4.3

Little poppies, little hell flames,
Do you do no harm?

You flicker. I cannot touch you.
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Sylvia Plath
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Gerard Power 31 March 2013

It strikes me that she is alluding to a suffering that finds itself inaccessible to mediation interventetion, or appeasement. Her suffering's rawness is so real that the order of its realness condemns it to remaining complete as an object and insuperable to any dilution which therefore demands that it can only and must be indured and tolerated resulting in a subjective exhaustion.

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Terrianna Sies 09 February 2009

what exactlyl is this poem sopposed to mean i need to know for skool

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Sylvia Plath

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