Poppies in July-Plath Flashcards

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Themes

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◍ conflicted relationships between beauty and pain

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‘little hell flames’

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◍ speaker asks if they’ll do harm
◍ suggests their beauty and potential danger
◍ poppies brightness and heat contrasts the speakers sense of emptiness.

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‘nothing burns’

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◍ she put her hands among the flames but feels nothing
◍ the inability to feel anything reflects on the speaker’s sense of numbness and dissociation
◍ this imagery suggests beauty and violence as if the poppies are both dangerous

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‘but colorless,colorless’

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◍carries a striking juxtaposition and emphasizes the absence of vibrancy or life in something that’s expected to be colorful and lively.
◍ turns to substance abuse to escape the pain
◍ colorless symbolizes escape of alcohol being ultimately useless

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