This Is Number Three By Syvia Plath
SLYVIA PLATH AND CONFESSIONAL POETRY
Slyvia Plath is an American poet, short story writer and novelist who lived between 1932-1963. Plath’s childhood and adolescence had a number of academic achievements. She is well known for her novel The Bell Jar, and for her poetry collections The Colossus and Ariel. Plath was clinically depressed. The previous onset of depression, at the age of 20, was associated with overwork and failure to get into a Harvard writing class. She had psychological treatment for many times. Her emotional difficulties were explored in terms of an ambivalent relationship with her mother and the early loss of her father. She attempted to suicide twice, and for the third and the last time, she committed a suicide in 1963. In …show more content…
She attempted to commit a suicide first when she was 10 and then at age 20; that is why she tells each decade. Since she failed, she considers her attempts a waste, showing her extreme level of disappointment.
“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've a call.” In these lines, she claims that dying is no less a skill than anything else in life and declares that hell is not a bad choice for her. Maybe she tries to tell us that her life was too harsh that it does not matter either she lives this life or die and go to hell. She explains dying is an art, and maybe it can be said that she explains this art in her poem, in other words in a piece of art.
Since she attempted to commit a suicide for several times, her poems connotes death in our minds. However, in lines “It's easy enough to do it in a cell./ It's easy enough to do it and stay put./ It's the theatrical” , it is possible that she talks about much more than a literal suicide. Dying could represent his psychological illness. Maybe she tries to explain her emotional death, and “to do it in a cell” or “to do it and stay put” might suggest the alienating effects of her manic …show more content…
She was feeling unworthy because of her illness, and maybe she felt underestimated by people, for example when her husband Tom Hughes cheated on her. She tries to tell the people that she is their opus and what made her worse and worse day by day and made her die in a shrieking way are those people.
In the last six lines of the poem, we see that she feels so strong; she even challenges God and Satan. She says “Beware/ Beware”, this recalls the final lines of Coleridge’s Kubla Khan. Both poems end with the image of a person regenerated with power. Also, we can see this regeneration in line “out of the ash”. In those lines, she tries to make us aware of that she is a woman who is filled with despair, and no one can be more powerful than a woman in pain also. After she will die, she will resurrect and she will kind of take her revenge by devouring
Slyvia Plath is an American poet, short story writer and novelist who lived between 1932-1963. Plath’s childhood and adolescence had a number of academic achievements. She is well known for her novel The Bell Jar, and for her poetry collections The Colossus and Ariel. Plath was clinically depressed. The previous onset of depression, at the age of 20, was associated with overwork and failure to get into a Harvard writing class. She had psychological treatment for many times. Her emotional difficulties were explored in terms of an ambivalent relationship with her mother and the early loss of her father. She attempted to suicide twice, and for the third and the last time, she committed a suicide in 1963. In …show more content…
She attempted to commit a suicide first when she was 10 and then at age 20; that is why she tells each decade. Since she failed, she considers her attempts a waste, showing her extreme level of disappointment.
“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've a call.” In these lines, she claims that dying is no less a skill than anything else in life and declares that hell is not a bad choice for her. Maybe she tries to tell us that her life was too harsh that it does not matter either she lives this life or die and go to hell. She explains dying is an art, and maybe it can be said that she explains this art in her poem, in other words in a piece of art.
Since she attempted to commit a suicide for several times, her poems connotes death in our minds. However, in lines “It's easy enough to do it in a cell./ It's easy enough to do it and stay put./ It's the theatrical” , it is possible that she talks about much more than a literal suicide. Dying could represent his psychological illness. Maybe she tries to explain her emotional death, and “to do it in a cell” or “to do it and stay put” might suggest the alienating effects of her manic …show more content…
She was feeling unworthy because of her illness, and maybe she felt underestimated by people, for example when her husband Tom Hughes cheated on her. She tries to tell the people that she is their opus and what made her worse and worse day by day and made her die in a shrieking way are those people.
In the last six lines of the poem, we see that she feels so strong; she even challenges God and Satan. She says “Beware/ Beware”, this recalls the final lines of Coleridge’s Kubla Khan. Both poems end with the image of a person regenerated with power. Also, we can see this regeneration in line “out of the ash”. In those lines, she tries to make us aware of that she is a woman who is filled with despair, and no one can be more powerful than a woman in pain also. After she will die, she will resurrect and she will kind of take her revenge by devouring