Category: English
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Main Idea Worksheet Grade 3
The central idea or main idea of a piece of writing is like the big picture or the most important point that the author wants you to understand. Imagine you’re painting a picture, and the central idea is the focal point of that painting, the thing that grabs your attention the most. When you’re reading…
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Who by Sylvia Plath Poem Analysis
The month of flowering’s finished. The fruit’s in,Eaten or rotten. I am all mouth.October’s the month for storage. Thie shed’s fusty as a mummy’s stomach:Old tools, handles and rusty tusks.I am at home here among the dead heads. Let me sit in a flowerpot,The spiders won’t notice.My heart is a stopped geranium. If only the…
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Who by Sylvia Plath Summary
The month of flowering’s finished. The fruit’s in,Eaten or rotten. I am all mouth.October’s the month for storage. Thie shed’s fusty as a mummy’s stomach:Old tools, handles and rusty tusks.I am at home here among the dead heads. Let me sit in a flowerpot,The spiders won’t notice.My heart is a stopped geranium. If only the…
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Widow by Sylvia Plath Structure and Form
Widow. The word consumes itself —-Body, a sheet of newsprint on the fireLevitating a numb minute in the updraftOver the scalding, red topographyThat will put her heart out like an only eye. Widow. The dead syllable, with its shadowOf an echo, exposes the panel in the wallBehind which the secret passages lies—stale air,Fusty remembrances, the…
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Widow by Sylvia Plath Themes
Widow. The word consumes itself —-Body, a sheet of newsprint on the fireLevitating a numb minute in the updraftOver the scalding, red topographyThat will put her heart out like an only eye. Widow. The dead syllable, with its shadowOf an echo, exposes the panel in the wallBehind which the secret passages lies—stale air,Fusty remembrances, the…
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Widow by Sylvia Plath Line by Line Explanation
“Widow. The word consumes itself —-“: The poem begins with the word “widow” and suggests that it holds within itself a sense of emptiness or self-destruction. “Body, a sheet of newsprint on the fire”: The widow’s body is compared to a sheet of newsprint burning in a fire, indicating intense pain or destruction. “Levitating a…
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Widow by Sylvia Plath Analysis
Widow. The word consumes itself —-Body, a sheet of newsprint on the fireLevitating a numb minute in the updraftOver the scalding, red topographyThat will put her heart out like an only eye. Widow. The dead syllable, with its shadowOf an echo, exposes the panel in the wallBehind which the secret passages lies—stale air,Fusty remembrances, the…
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Widow by Sylvia Plath Summary
Widow. The word consumes itself —-Body, a sheet of newsprint on the fireLevitating a numb minute in the updraftOver the scalding, red topographyThat will put her heart out like an only eye. Widow. The dead syllable, with its shadowOf an echo, exposes the panel in the wallBehind which the secret passages lies—stale air,Fusty remembrances, the…
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Winter Landscape with Rooks by Sylvia Plath- Language Devices
Water in the millrace, through a sluice of stone,plunges headlong into that black pondwhere, absurd and out-of-season, a single swanfloats chaste as snow, taunting the clouded mindwhich hungers to haul the white reflection down. The austere sun descends above the fen,an orange cyclops-eye, scorning to looklonger on this landscape of chagrin;feathered dark in thought, I…