Once More About the Thin People by Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath is an American poet, novelist and short story writer who lived in London, United Kingdom. She is considered an important poet of her generation. Her work is very personal and towards the end of her life she often wrote about death. She usually used confessional genre to write her poetry. She is Best-known for her two published collections: The Colossus and Other Poetrys and Ariel. She also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar in 1963 published shortly before her death. The Bell Jar was based on her own life and personal experiences. The Thin People is one of her best poetry which was written in 1957 and was also known as "The Moon Was a Fat Woman Once". A lot of interpretations were made toward this poetry. Some people argue that this poetry takes on the holocaust issue, the victim of World War II, while other people think that it is more about her concern towards the recent trend of skinny models shown on television. Actually, there are a lot of evidences which indirectly show us that this poetry is about World War, i.e. Sylvia Plath ethnicity is Austrian and German, where German is a country with the worse suffering because of that world war and Plath was born during the Great Depression on October 27, 1932. There are a lot of people who agree and a lot of people too who disagree with that interpretation. I know that everyone has their own opinion about “The Thin People”, and I have too. In my point of view towards this poetry, ”The Thin People” told about the poor people, the people who almost being starvation. The thin people in this poetry means denotatively, they are people who have thin body, “they famished and grew so lean”. There is no one country in this world which without poor people, they are everywhere, “They are always with us”. What they want the most is food, “they are famished, and grew so lean and would not round out their stalky limbs again though peace plumped the bellies of the mice under the meanest table”. They did