As I was scanning through the text book I landed on a page where I suprisingly found a short poem by Slyvia Plath. Surprising because from the works I've read of hers, I took/take interest.
But anyway...I read this poem about 5 times and still was left taking away 2 things from it...or at least what I think I did. And that was setting and line to line analysis. By that I mean the way she described the setting, it came off as tropic. And by analysis, the first line "I'm a riddle in nine syllables" gave me the curiosity to count the syllables in the lines singularly. Whadddaya know...every syllable count was exactly 9. Thinking on it now, its a clever way to start off a poem introducing or stating clues hidden between lines. I don't know if anyone else would have checked but just a thought.And come to think of it, in her poem, her choice of diction allows me to imagine the charcter in her poem is a wealthy person simply vacationing, sightseeing, and getting off. Now, I could be entirely off track but thats just how I personally percieve it.
Interesting poem, but for me, Plath has better works.
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