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Summary 'Cut' by Sylvia Plath, Analysis

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Cuts the top of her finger off – then rest of the poem is a mental reaction to the pain

“What a thrill” – very understated

Very restrained sense to it, with the very English language

The Indian’s used to take people’s scalp as a trophy. Turkey wattle is the red part of their
necks, carpet flows like the blood being rolled out, flowing like this wattle.

She seems to be relishing the pain – walking on this red carpet, having a bottle of pink fizz –
playful, deliberately unexpected, silly images

The Redcoats were the British troops trying to stop the Americans from going independent –
throughout the poem she is kind of giving mixed messages, the images are running away
with her

The way the stanzas work in this poem – prosaic language at start, basic language and then
as she goes on as the blood keeps flowing out her language shifts

Homunculus – little man, old scientists used to be obsessed with idea of a man in a jar

She actually does have a suicide attempt, through taking pills – 6 months before this poem

She was taking anti-depressants at the time, and sleeping pills after Hughes left

“The balled pulp of your heart” “How you jump” – she is looking at herself from a distant
view

Final stanza, step back from everything  seeing herself as a survivor of the incident, she is
maimed – so does she become the thumb stump, or did the thumb stump return to
literalism

Trepanned veteran: back in the day they would drill a hole in your head to let your spirits
out

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