Among The Narcissi Analysis

Author: poem of Sylvia Plath Type: poem Views: 19

Spry, wry, and gray as these March sticks,
Percy bows, in his blue peajacket, among the narcissi.
He is recuperating from something on the lung.

The narcissi, too, are bowing to some big thing :
It rattles their stars on the green hill where Percy
Nurses the hardship of his stitches, and walks and walks.

There is a dignity to this; there is a formality --
The flowers vivid as bandages, and the man mending.
They bow and stand : they suffer such attacks!

And the octogenarian loves the little flocks.
He is quite blue; the terrible wind tries his breathing.
The narcissi look up like children, quickly and whitely.

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I believe that the first comment is correct, Among The Narcassi has to be one of Plath's greatest mysteries.The paradoxical contrast between light and dark and young and old help to emphasise the ongoing life that is nature. Alternate stanzas, 2 and 4, have the last line centred around repitition. The constant representation of 'and' symbolically emphasises how his fight for survival amongst the daffodils doesn't stop to cease, even if the 'attack' has no exit in sight. The use of simile in Stanza 3 again shows Plath's amazing ability of anti-personifying anything. Taking something as full of life as flowers and contrasting it to being like 'bandage' outlines for the reader how for her nature is threatening because even the most beautiful aspects of nature are seen as harmful in her eyes!!
Hope that helps
Kavikyyy

| Posted on 2009-04-14 | by a guest

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The poem is about an old man that is resuperating from an operation and has stiches.
There is a link between the old man who is struggling to survive, with the daffodils (an eternal symbol of spring, growth, life, innocence, and purity) show this ephemeral feeling that life is short and will not last forever.
The comparison in the last line shows how vunerable the old man is and again, emphasises the ephemeral nature of life.

| Posted on 2009-02-27 | by a guest

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this poem is a complete load of rubbish what the hell is it about???

| Posted on 2008-11-16 | by a guest

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