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Two Sisters Of Persephone Analysis
Author: poem of Sylvia Plath Type: poem Views: 26
Two girls there are : within the house
One sits; the other, without.
Daylong a duet of shade and light
Plays between these.
In her dark wainscoted room
The first works problems on
A mathematical machine.
Dry ticks mark time
As she calculates each sum.
At this barren enterprise
Rat-shrewd go her squint eyes,
Root-pale her meager frame.
Bronzed as earth, the second lies,
Hearing ticks blown gold
Like pollen on bright air. Lulled
Near a bed of poppies,
She sees how their red silk flare
Of petaled blood
Burns open to the sun's blade.
On that green alter
Freely become sun's bride, the latter
Grows quick with seed.
Grass-couched in her labor's pride,
She bears a king. Turned bitter
And sallow as any lemon,
The other, wry virgin to the last,
Goes graveward with flesh laid waste,
Worm-husbanded, yet no woman.
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The spirit of these two sisters of Persephone, perhaps, struggled in light and shadow within Plath's mind. Plath, likewise, must have struggled between the world of Hades and six months of darkness, or light with Hyperion making his way across the heavens.
Apparently, and to the sorrow of many, Hades seems to have won in real life, for Plath placed her head in an oven one day, turned on the gas and left this world a sadder place.
| Posted on 2009-09-24 | by a guest
Though the poem may refer most directly to the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, I personally believe it is a reflection of how our society determines a woman's worth simply be her beauty and feminine characteristics.
| Posted on 2008-09-27 | by a guest
Though the poem may refer most directly to the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, I personally believe it is a reflection of how our society determines a woman's worth simply be her beauty and feminine characteristics.
| Posted on 2008-09-27 | by a guest
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