Words by Sylvia Plath
Words by Sylvia Plath

Words

Sylvia Plath * Track #43 On Ariel

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Words by Sylvia Plath

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Sylvia Plath
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A possible companion poem to “Cut”, where the speaker alludes to small verbal attacks, “Words” appears to illustrate the more scathing verbal attacks that strike much deeper and remain buried in our subconscious.

Structure
The poem is made up of four five-line stanzas, with no rhyme scheme, a typic...

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Words Annotated

Axes
After whose stroke the wood rings,
And the echoes!
Echoes traveling
Off from the center like horses.

The sap
Wells like tears, like the
Water striving
To re-establish its mirror
Over the rock

That drops and turns,
A white skull,
Eaten by weedy greens.
Years later I
Encounter them on the road---

Words dry and riderless,
The indefatigable hoof-taps.
While
From the bottom of the pool, fixed stars
Govern a life.

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