Sylvia Plath
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Written on a parapet, overlooking the River Seine, on June 1st 1956 (Ted Hughes' introduction to Collected Poems), Sylvia Plath’s ‘Miss Drake Proceeds to Supper’ invites an exploration into insanity and fear through the habits of Miss Drake as she tackles the obstacles of the world which her mind ha...
Miss Drake Proceeds to Supper
No novice
In those elaborate rituals
Which allay the malice
Of knotted table and crooked chair,
The new woman in the ward
Wears purple, steps carefully
Among her secret combinations of eggshells
And breakable hummingbirds,
Footing sallow as a mouse
Between the cabbage-roses
Which are slowly opening their furred petals
To devour and drag her down
Into the carpet's design.
With bird-quick eye cocked askew
She can see in the nick of time
How perilous needles grain the floorboards
And outwit their brambled plan;
Now through her ambushed air,
Adazzle with bright shards
Of broken glass,
She edges with wary breath,
Fending off jag and tooth,
Until, turning sideways,
She lifts one webbed foot after the other
Into the still, sultry weather
Of the patients' dining room.
Miss Drake Proceeds to Supper was written by Sylvia Plath.
Sylvia Plath released Miss Drake Proceeds to Supper on Fri Jun 01 1956.