Gulliver by Sylvia Plath
Gulliver by Sylvia Plath

Gulliver

Sylvia Plath * Track #16 On Ariel

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Gulliver by Sylvia Plath

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‘Gulliver’ is Plath’s commentary on Jonathon Swift’s satirical novel *Gulliver’s Travels', published in 1726. Swift’s invented character was a seafaring doctor who travelled the world. The countries that Gulliver visited were fantasy lands with fantasy populations. By setting his story outside Engla...

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Gulliver Annotated

Over your body the clouds go
High, high and icily
And a little flat, as if they

Floated on a glass that was invisible
Unlike swans,
Having no reflections;

Unlike you,
With no strings attached.
All cool, all blue. Unlike you ---

You, there on your back,
Eyes to the sky.
The spider-men have caught you,

Winding and twining their petty fetters,
Their bribes ---
So many silks.

How they hate you.
They converse in the valley of your fingers, they are inchworms.
They would have you sleep in their cabinets,

This tow and that toe, a relic.
Step off!
Step off seven leagues, like those distances

That revolve in Crivelli, untouchable.
Let this eye be an eagle,
The shadow of his lip, an abyss.

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