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This can be connected to her loss of faith after her father has passed away.

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Possible Holocaust reference with respect to the melting, burning, ash - link to Plath's own suffering

Foreshadowing her own death via oven

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"I am your opus..." - possible idea that Plath sees herself as a possession of others

The fact that she sees herself as an "opus" and "valuable" reflects the fact that again, she considers herself superior, amazing, etc.

Consider also the contrast to the lines below - "That melts to a shriek..." - suggests weakness, vulnerability, loss of identity, etc.

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Plath continues to experience the same things over and over again - no escape
The theatrical element refers to Plath's continuous revival and her deeming herself a miracle in control of her own life and death

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Dying is like an escape from all the difficulties Plath suffered in her life including depression, the loss of her father, feeling marginalized, and worthlessness. She does it so it feels "real." An escape from feeling numb, the feeling of being real, alive, and free from all these burdens in her life.

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it is ironic because before her death she sent a note to her neighbour to call a doctor, suggesting she does not want to kill herself

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Peanut crunching crowd as the "spectators" - she like a performance/circus that everyone is watching and analyzing (theatrical performance)

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*Vanishing in a day - literally her? Will she be quickly forgotten?
*Struggle with mental health issues may lead to the idea that she is only at "home" in death

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Peeling off the napkin - exposing many of Plath's inner struggles that were not necessarily well known

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Ironic that she would say this when she has attempted suicide twice and came away unsucessful.

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talking aboutTed hughes, showing her anger

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"The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?..."

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"The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?..."

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Foreshadowing and leading up to her planned suicide.

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"Flesh,bone, there is nothing there..." could be a reference to how she views herself as just flesh and bone but that she has no personality

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some great force grabs a hold of her and turns death to life in her writing

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After every attempt of suicide she is found

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After every attempt of suicide she is found

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Featureless , fine linen could be a reference to how she feels that she is empty blank and has no depth

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before she went for her suicide attempt she told people she was going on a walk but they went out and called and called as she wouldn't come back

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her fans adoring her and always watching and offering support "crunching peanuts"

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The brute could be a reference to her husband who was abusive and that every day she comes back from work to face his abuse.

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used holocaust imagery in her poems to represent the anger, loss and violent feelings

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the death of her father spread powerful imagery that carried on through her whole life

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when she first met her to be husband and in a display of passion bit him hard on the cheek which drew blood

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Second time she wanted to die and not come back (sleeping pills)

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Second time she wanted to die and not come back (sleeping pills)

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the pure gold baby is a direct reference to her miscarriage

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her failing marriage that left her with two kids

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Herr Doktor refers to here father, represented as a physician.

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Plath referring to all the things that used to be of worth in her life, but now are completely irrelevant. She is set free from the responsibilities of being a a daughter, a wife, and a mother.

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Could mean that although she had therapists she could have felt as she was never really helped

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Refers to how Plath has successfully committed suicide after many attempts.

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Ironic that someone would talk about death in the way that she does

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Ironic that someone would talk about death in the way that she does

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Her heartache after her husband leaves her

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the miracle is her being alive after her overdose and the charge is a refrence to the electroshock and pyschotherapy

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she likened her father to a nazi physician

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she underwent electro shock therapy  thus giving meaning to her word "a charge"

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she underwent electro shock therapy  thus giving meaning to her word "a charge"

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Refers to when she crawled into the cellar of her family home to attempt suicide.

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Plath never tries to die in the least painful way and the fact that she fails her attempts cause her more pain and suffering

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Possibly referring to her husband that abandoned her since he had an affair, 2 years after the birth of their daughter.

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father died when plath was 8, complications following the amputation o his foot

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Lacks emotion, no identity, refers to depression

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Lacks emotion, no identity, refers to depression

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She is feeling depressed and sad but she doesn't show it because at first people see an accomplished smiling thirty year old and automatically think that she is happy but on the inside she is depressed.

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"Do not think I underestimate your great concern"

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"Do not think I underestimate your great concern"

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Plath is expressing how she won't disregard how her death will negatively affect others.

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Plath had two relationships which was unsuccessful, and probably they did darken her view of men. So that is why she might want to eat men. In addition, she might have thought that her father, whom his death brought sadness to Plath, committed suicide since he did not seek treatment. Thus, this gives Plath all the more reason to "eat men".

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Refers to how Plath is still alive after experiencing near-death several times.

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when she woke up she was covered in vomit and worms 

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when she woke up she was covered in vomit and worms 

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Referring to her accident at the age of 10 when she almost drowned.

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The paper weight could be a reference to her husband who brought her down through his infidelity and emotional abuse .

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"Shoves in to see / Them unwrap me"
This line maybe refers to the electroshock and psychotherapy that she underwent.

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Tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills, and was almost successful

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"This is Number Three."
This line refers to Plath's successful suicide attempt.

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Multiple attempts at suicide, but like a cat, seems to have several lives.

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Plath had three death-related experiences. The first of them occurred when she was almost drowned at the age of ten, and at the age of twenty, she attempted suicide and overdosed on sleeping pills.Finally on the age of thirty, she succeeded in killing herself.
Thus, the line "One year in every ten" refers to these experiences which occur once in every ten years.

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all the men in her life had left her or broke her heart such as her dad and both lovers thus providing the reason for her saying "i eat MEN like air"

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all the men in her life had left her or broke her heart such as her dad and both lovers thus providing the reason for her saying "i eat MEN like air"

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I have done it again.
One year in every ten
I manage it--

A sort of walking miracle, my skin
Bright as a Nazi lampshade,
My right foot

A paperweight,
My face a featureless, fine
Jew linen.

Peel off the napkin
O my enemy.
Do I terrify?--

The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
The sour breath
Will vanish in a day.

Soon, soon the flesh
The grave cave ate will be
At home on me

And I a smiling woman.
I am only thirty.
And like the cat I have nine times to die.

This is Number Three.
What a trash
To annihilate each decade.

What a million filaments.
The peanut-crunching crowd
Shoves in to see

Them unwrap me hand and foot--
The big strip tease.
Gentlemen, ladies

These are my hands
My knees.
I may be skin and bone,

Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman.
The first time it happened I was ten.
It was an accident.

The second time I meant
To last it out and not come back at all.
I rocked shut

As a seashell.
They had to call and call
And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.

Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.

I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I've a call.

It's easy enough to do it in a cell.
It's easy enough to do it and stay put.
It's the theatrical

Comeback in broad day
To the same place, the same face, the same brute
Amused shout:

'A miracle!'
That knocks me out.
Thee is a charge

For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge
For the hearing of my heart--
It really goes.

And there is a charge, a very large charge
For a word or a touch
Or a bit of blood

Or a piece of my hair or my clothes.
So, so, Herr Doktor.
So, Herr Enemy.

I am your opus,
I am your valuable,
The pure gold baby

That melts to a shriek.
I turn and burn.
Do not think I underestimate your great concern.

Ash, ash--
You poke and stir.
Flesh, bone, there is nothing there—

A cake of soap,
A wedding ring,
A gold filling.

Herr God, Herr Lucifer
Beware
Beware.

Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.

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Makes death worse for herself. Has a talent for dying

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Makes death worse for herself. Has a talent for dying

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"And there is a charge"
This line possibly refers again to the electroshock and psychotherapy which Plath underwent for six months.

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'Doktor' is a German word for a medical doctor or a person who has a PhD. Possibly Sylvia Plath meant her father, who is German and a professor, in this line since she thought he was guilty for refusing medical treatment.