Cut by Sylvia Plath
Cut by Sylvia Plath

Cut

Sylvia Plath * Track #7 On Ariel

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Cut by Sylvia Plath

Release Date
Wed Oct 24 1962
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Sylvia Plath
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First published in her posthumous volume Ariel, “Cut” is often considered one of Plath’s greatest poems. Its striking, overlapping metaphors and macabre imagery suggest psychological tensions running deeper than an ordinary response to a kitchen accident. The ‘cut’ of the title refers not only to he...

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For Susan O'Neill Roe

What a thrill ----
My thumb instead of an onion.
The top quite gone
Except for a sort of a hinge

Of skin,
A flap like a hat,
Dead white.
Then that red plush.

Little pilgrim,
The Indian's axed your scalp.
Your turkey wattle
Carpet rolls

Straight from the heart.
I step on it,
Clutching my bottle
Of pink fizz.

A celebration, this is.
Out of a gap
A million soldiers run,
Redcoats, every one.

Whose side are they on?
O my
Homunculus, I am ill.
I have taken a pill to kill

The thin
Papery feeling.
Saboteur,
Kamikaze man ---

The stain on your
Gauze Ku Klux Klan
Babushka
Darkens and tarnishes and when

The balled
Pulp of your heart
Confronts its small
Mill of silence

How you jump ---
Trepanned veteran,
Dirty girl,
Thumb stump.

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When did Sylvia Plath release Cut?

Sylvia Plath released Cut on Wed Oct 24 1962.

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