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'Love Letter' By Sylvia Plath

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Intro

- 'Love Letter' is a poem written by famed poet and author Sylvia Plath

- Other poems written by Plath include 'Daddy', 'Ariel' and 'Lady Lazarus'

- Plath also wrote one book called 'The Bell Jar'.

- Sylvia Plath was one of the most famous Confessional poets.

General Overview

General Overview

- ‘Love Letter’ was released in 1960

- This poem includes features of themes Plath herself experienced such as childbirth, marriage and depression

- Written about then husband, Ted Hughes.

Overall Meaning

- In this poem, Plath implies that she has found a reason to live

- Plath speaks about how her lover makes her feel like a new person.

Love Letter

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Not easy to state the change you made.

If I'm alive now, then I was dead,

Though, like a stone, unbothered by it,

Staying put according to habit.

You didn't just toe me an inch, no--

Nor leave me to set my small bald eye

Skyward again, without hope, of course,

Of apprehending blueness, or stars.

That wasn't it. I slept, say: a snake

Masked among black rocks as a black rock

In the white hiatus of winter--

Like my neighbors, taking no pleasure

In the million perfectly-chiseled

Cheeks alighting each moment to melt

My cheek of basalt. They turned to tears,

Angels weeping over dull natures,

But didn't convince me. Those tears froze.

Each dead head had a visor of ice.

And I slept on like a bent finger.

The first thing I saw was sheer air

And the locked drops rising in a dew

Limpid as spirits. Many stones lay

Dense and expressionless round about.

I didn't know what to make of it.

I shone, mica-scaled, and unfolded

To pour myself out like a fluid

Among bird feet and the stems of plants.

I wasn't fooled. I knew you at once.

Tree and stone glittered, without shadows.

My finger-length grew lucent as glass.

I started to bud like a March twig:

An arm and a leg, an arm, a leg.

From stone to cloud, so I ascended.

Now I resemble a sort of god

Floating through the air in my soul-shift

Pure as a pane of ice. It's a gift.

Overall Structure

features

Repetition.

Symbolism.

- idea of feeling like a rock or stone: “though, like a stone, unbothered by it/ masked among black rocks as a black rock/many stones lay/ dense and expressionless about/ from stone to cloud, so I ascended”

Features of the poem

- “And I slept on like a bent finger”

-“though, like a stone, unbothered by it/ masked among black rocks as a black rock/many stones lay/ dense and expressionless about/ from stone to cloud, so I ascended”

General mood.

The general mood or atmosphere of this poem is quite floaty and cloud-like.

In conclusion...

Conclusion

- This poem gives off the impression that Plath needed love in order to live.

- This poem was about Plath putting herself back together with the help of her lover.

- The constant comparison of herself to a rock, a cloud etc. lets us see the kind of growth that Plath feels she is going through.

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