"Cut"
By Sylvia Plath
In this poem “Cut” Sylvia Plath describes what she was thinking when she cut the top of her thumb off and what was going through her head afterward. She uses a large number of metaphors. Plath seems a little to excited in the beginning to be sane because she says things like “what a thrill--- my thumb instead of an onion.”
Sylvia Plath uses many metaphors to create a vivid image in your head. “A million soldiers run, redcoats every one.” In this quote she says that there’s blood coming out of the cut. Plath uses the simile “A flap like a hat” to describe the top of her thumb is still connected to her thumb by a flap of skin.
The mood of “Cut” changes throughout the poem going from excited and adrenalin rushed to sad, dark and self-hate. Three quotes that show this are “clutching my bottle of pink fizz. A celebration this is”, “saboteur, kamikaze man” and “how you jumped ---- trepanned veteran dirty girl thumb stump”.
My opinion of the poem “Cut” is that it is very strange. Her using too many metaphors, no matter how clever they are just makes the metaphors underappreciated because there are so many, no one takes proper notice of how clever they are. The way she describes her thumb and the way she felt creates a vivid image in your head about what was happening.
By Sylvia Plath
In this poem “Cut” Sylvia Plath describes what she was thinking when she cut the top of her thumb off and what was going through her head afterward. She uses a large number of metaphors. Plath seems a little to excited in the beginning to be sane because she says things like “what a thrill--- my thumb instead of an onion.”
Sylvia Plath uses many metaphors to create a vivid image in your head. “A million soldiers run, redcoats every one.” In this quote she says that there’s blood coming out of the cut. Plath uses the simile “A flap like a hat” to describe the top of her thumb is still connected to her thumb by a flap of skin.
The mood of “Cut” changes throughout the poem going from excited and adrenalin rushed to sad, dark and self-hate. Three quotes that show this are “clutching my bottle of pink fizz. A celebration this is”, “saboteur, kamikaze man” and “how you jumped ---- trepanned veteran dirty girl thumb stump”.
My opinion of the poem “Cut” is that it is very strange. Her using too many metaphors, no matter how clever they are just makes the metaphors underappreciated because there are so many, no one takes proper notice of how clever they are. The way she describes her thumb and the way she felt creates a vivid image in your head about what was happening.
