Poppies in July by Sylvia Plath
Poppies in July by Sylvia Plath

Poppies in July

Sylvia Plath * Track #39 On Ariel

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Poppies in July by Sylvia Plath

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“Poppies in July

This is a short poem, the title of which suggests an image of natural life at the height of summer, evoking a pastoral landscape and happiness,. The title is ironic, however, because the poem is not a hymn to nature but a hallucinatory projection of the speaker’s mind and depressed...

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Poppies in July Annotated

Little poppies, little hell flames,
Do you do no harm?

You flicker. I cannot touch you.
I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns.

And it exhausts me to watch you
Flickering like that, wrinkly and clear red, like the skin of a mouth.

A mouth just bloodied.
Little bloody skirts!

There are fumes that I cannot touch.
Where are your opiates, your nauseous capsules?

If I could bleed, or sleep!
If my mouth could marry a hurt like that!

Or your liquors seep to me, in this glass capsule,
Dulling and stilling.

But colorless. Colorless.

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