Elm - Plath Flashcards
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Themes
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◍ Isolation
◍ nature
◍ mental anguish
2
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What’s the tree?
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The elm tree serves as a central metaphor in the poem, symbolizing different aspects of the speaker’s emotional state.
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’ I do not fear it: I have been there’
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◍ Conveys her overwhelming depression by referring to her suicidal intentions and rock bottom
◍Shows the speakers strength to have survived horrible emotions
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‘i am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me’
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◍ reflects on the intensity of her mental suffering
◍ perhaps Plath is terrified of what she may do to herself in a moment of darkness. is terrified of how her depression controls her mind.
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