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The poem

Stanza 4

Two suicides, the family wolves,

Hours of blankness. Some hard stars

Already yellow the heavens.

The spider on its own string

Sylvia Plath "The Manor Garden"

Stanza 1

Stanza 3

The fountains are dry and the roses over.

Incense of death. Your day approaches.

The pears fatten like little buddhas.

A blue mist is dragging the lake.

Nourishes these broken flutings,

These crowns of acanthus,

And the crow settles her garments.

You inherit white heather, a bee's wing,

Stanza 2

You move through the era of fishes,

The smug centuries of the pig-

Head, toe and finger

Come clear of the shadow. History

The end

Thank You!

Sylvia Plath quotes about death

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Dying is an art. Like everything else, I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I have a call.

Stanza 5

Stanza 5:

"Crosses...difficult borning"

  • Shows unusual activity. (birds converging)
  • "Gift" referring to the unborn child.

Crosses the lake. The worms

Quit their usual habitations.

The small birds converge, converge

With their gifts to a difficult borning.

What is the poem depicting?

Stanza 4:

Two suicides... yellow the heavens"

  • Scared of what shes bringing the baby into.
  • She has worries of being a mother and it's responsibilities.

Life and death

Poets she inspired

Although the poem talks about death, it includes imagery of childbirth, and motherhood, with it's struggles; it also talks about life.

The poem is themed around fertility, mortality, and decay.

Stanza 3:

""Nourishes.. bee's wing"

  • The ruins are symbols of the speakers feelings towards motherhood.
  • "You"- speaks to her unborn child.
  • Indicates it will inherit good fortune.

Stanza 2:

You move..of the shadow".

Why she wrote this poem

  • Fertility
  • Becoming more accepting of motherhood.

This poem was written after her Husband's death, and also has implications about her Father's death.

The theme of death is therefore evident throughout the poem.

About the author

Analysis

Stanza 1:

"The fountains.. little buddhas"

  • Lack of life
  • Death of someone
  • Her pregnancy (pear and her Buddha frame)

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932 and died on February 11, 1963, and she was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer.

Born in Boston, and studied at Smith College, at the University of Cambridge, before receiving acclaim as a poet and writer.

How is death portrayed in Plath's "The Manor Garden"?

She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956, and had two children, Frieda and Nicholas. Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life. She committed suicide in 1963.

By: Dana Ataya IB1C

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