Commentary on Plaths In Plaster
"In Plaster" was a poem written by Sylvia Plath on March 18, 1961. The poem was written while Plath was in St. Pancras hospital in England, immediately following an appendectomy. Her journals, as well as the letters she wrote to her mother, vividly describe the events surrounding the composition of this poem. Interestingly, Plath also wrote another one of her famous poems, "Tulips", on the same day. The events in Plath's personal life surrounding the writing of this poem were fairly chaotic. Two years earlier, Plath suffered an extreme case of writer's block while at Yaddo. She later concludes that her unknown pregnancy with Frieda was the cause of this block. After Frieda's birth, Sylvia pours her entire life into caring for her daughter. A year later, in early 1961, Plath suffers a miscarriage of her second child. A mere month after this occurs, she undergoes an appendectomy. Plath, as concluded from her letters and journals, exhibited a type of schizophrenia during this time period. Her letters to her mother, just days before she wrote the poem, create the image of a happy-go-lucky, ever-optimistic little girl. However, her journals create a very
And the white person is certainly the superior one. Blooms out of a vase of not very valuable porcelain , I felt her criticizing me in spite of herself, And she'll perish with emptiness then , and begin to miss me. I patronized her a little, and she lapped it up- I used to think we might make a go of it together-
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Approximate Word count = 1091
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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