The Couriers by Sylvia Plath
The Couriers by Sylvia Plath

The Couriers

Sylvia Plath * Track #2 On Ariel

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The Couriers by Sylvia Plath

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The title, we can assume, refers to the imagery in the poem, the ideas that convey “messages” to the poet about her relationship. It brings to the mind the phrase “mixed messages,” but the messages the speaker receives are not at all mixed. The poem portrays the harsh realities of a ruined relatio...

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The Couriers Annotated

The word of a snail on the plate of a leaf?
It is not mine. Do not accept it.

Acetic acid in a sealed tin?
Do not accept it. It is not genuine.

A ring of gold with the sun in it?
Lies. Lies and a grief.

Frost on a leaf, the immaculate
Cauldron, talking and crackling

All to itself on top of each
Of nine black Alps.

A disturbance in mirrors,
The sea shattering its grey one--

Love, love, my season.

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