Sylvia Plath suicide several month after she wrote this poem. So when I read the poem I cannot get rid of an idea that she was suffered from her life. The poem has tercet form, and her tone is very pessimistic. The first stanza gives me an idea of suicide. She has tried killed herself every ten years, and she is counting her suicide. The thirteen stanza is about her desire to death “The second time I meant To last it out and not come back at all”. She did not want to be survived, but she failed to die.
The poem really made me sad because I felt her weakness throughout the poem. In the seven stanza and third line she wrote, “And like the cat I have nine times to die”. She may believe she could live until ninety years old because she said she “done it again one year in every ten…”(1). When she wrote the poem, she was still young. She did not live enough to say the world is terrible. The overall image is of the poem is very dark and painful. However, after reading this poem, I only had one thought in my mind. I really wanted to help her.
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