“Cut“
The poem “Cut“ by Sylvia Plath is about a lady cutting her thumb. The poem shows with different techniques that she is not a normal person but a little bit strange. Plath also describes the changing mood of the lady in a very interesting way. In the first paragraph she explains how the lady cuts herself. She is using similes and metaphors to show the process of cutting the finger and the changing mood.
The first and only simile in the poem is in the second paragraph: “A flap like a hat, Dead white.” The simile simply stands for the piece of skin that got cut of her thumb.
The other technique that I’m going to discuss is a metaphor used in paragraph four. Plath writes: “Clutching my bottle of pink fizz. A celebration this is.” The bottle in this metaphor stands for her finger and the pink fizz symbolizes the blood coming out of it. The other reason for her to use this metaphor is to show how excited the lady about her injury is.
The mood in the poem changes from very excited and happy, “Clutching my bottle of pink fizz”, to sad, “Homunculus, I am ill, I have taken a pill to kill”, and finally to self-hatred, shown in the last paragraph with: “Trepanned Veteran, Dirty Girl”.
I think that “Cut” is a very interesting and well written poem because it shows what the Lady did and what she felt in a very complex way without using many words.
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Nicolas Kloos
The poem “Cut“ by Sylvia Plath is about a lady cutting her thumb. The poem shows with different techniques that she is not a normal person but a little bit strange. Plath also describes the changing mood of the lady in a very interesting way. In the first paragraph she explains how the lady cuts herself. She is using similes and metaphors to show the process of cutting the finger and the changing mood.
The first and only simile in the poem is in the second paragraph: “A flap like a hat, Dead white.” The simile simply stands for the piece of skin that got cut of her thumb.
The other technique that I’m going to discuss is a metaphor used in paragraph four. Plath writes: “Clutching my bottle of pink fizz. A celebration this is.” The bottle in this metaphor stands for her finger and the pink fizz symbolizes the blood coming out of it. The other reason for her to use this metaphor is to show how excited the lady about her injury is.
The mood in the poem changes from very excited and happy, “Clutching my bottle of pink fizz”, to sad, “Homunculus, I am ill, I have taken a pill to kill”, and finally to self-hatred, shown in the last paragraph with: “Trepanned Veteran, Dirty Girl”.
I think that “Cut” is a very interesting and well written poem because it shows what the Lady did and what she felt in a very complex way without using many words.
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Nicolas Kloos
