Line 61 Sylvia Plath Essay

In line 61, Plath tells the reader, “But they pulled me out of the sack,/ And they stuck me together with glue.” (61-62) Here she says that she tried to die, but did not succeed, that they rescued her from killing herself by pulling her out of the sack of death and gluing her back together. Lines 63-65 state “And then I knew what to do./ I made a model of you,/ A man in black with a Meinkampf look” (63-65) Here Plath says that she made a model of her father, this doesn’t actually mean that she made an actual clay model however; it could mean that she found a real man that resembled her father in certain ways. She does not say that this man is black, like her father, but she does say that he is in black. Plath seems to have married this man in line 67, “And I said I do, I do.” (67) In line 65, Plath says “And a

She goes into more detail of how she is through with her father saying that “the black telephone’s off at the root,/ The voices just can’t worm through.” (69-70) She uses imagery of the voices that cannot come through, saying that they would be like worms in the soil. She is stating that her and her father can no longer communicate. In lines 72-74, Plath says, “The vampire who said he was you/ And drank my blood for a year,/ Seven years, if you want to know.” (72-74) She has already described this man as the devil, now she is describing him as a vampire as well. And that he has “drank” her blood for years now. Drinking blood is a metaphor for the speaker’s relationship with this man. It sounds like this man has been draining her life away, like a vampire would drain his victim’s blood. Plath’s husband actually had an affair with another woman while still married to Sylvia. He then left the family to move in with his lover and Plath struggled against her own emotional