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Plath had wanted only peace in her suicide but instead got anger from others and judgement.

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Overall this poem shows her contempt toward her father and invisible face that he has become.

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If she made up her lover then maybe she does not really have to be hurt by this invisible lover.

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This poem is short and repetitive for the reason of the heartbreak Plath feels. She can not talk about it long.

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Plath asserts she should have loved something more reliable that she knew would come back to her.

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She waited so long for this lover but they never returned to her so in turn she decided to forgett their name. I think by choice.

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Line 13
After their departure from each other she hopes her lover will come back to her in the way the lover promised her.

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Line 10
She talks of how great their loves was, their love made God fall and hell diminish in flames. Their love was a powerful force.

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Her repetition of her making the person up, shows her mental stability and her realizing she does not have the best stability.

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"like a communion tablet" Ironic she chose a religious doing with committing suicide which is very frowned upon in most religions.

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"sunken rust-red engine" She is now referring to her own heart that is broken and sunk, no point in bringing back.

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"The tulips should be behind bars" I think now she is referring to the doctors who resuscitated her, she feels like they took away her choice to die.

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"Nobody watched me before" Now that she has tried to commit suicide everyone must keep an eye on her but they didn't before she tried. They didn't care then they shouldn't try now.

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"The tulips are too red"
Red symbolizes anger, so the people who come to see her are angry with her for trying to kill herself which just makes her feel worse.

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"I didn't want any flowers" She never wanted anyone to find her, she just wanted to go peacefully.

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"I have never been so pure" Having them take away her possessions means she is scrubbed from an identity and she relishes in this fact.

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"I have let things slip" Plath is trying to leave everything behind that hurts and burdens her, she just wants to be able to let go.

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Line 3
Plath directly refers to this person who has obviously hurt her deeply. Maybe she made him up to hurt herself.

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Line 2
When she opens her eyes life can resume and it is all because of her. Power over everyone.

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Line 7
She refers to her lover as bewitching her because obviously her lover has hurt her very badly and wants to think she had no control over it.

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Line 4-5
Plath plays with the idea of light and darkness, just like with the death and reborn-ness when she opens and closes her eyes.

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She states when her eyes are closed nothing ever happens she is in control of all things.

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"I am nobody" She has given up her identity and she is more than okay with doing so.

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The tulips are people in her life.

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She is reminded pf her family and is now full of guilt that is pulling on her.

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"If I killed one man I killed two" she is referring to her ex husband who she married that resembled her father.

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This husband made her so miserable for a whole seven years. Saying he sucked her blood, he drained the life out of her.

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No one ever liked her father, maybe referring to her mothers family, they always knew he was bad news.

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She refers to him as "Polack" and she means that he is an ordinary man but not really, he is a mean spirited man who broke her heart.

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When trying to commit suicide she felt guilt for never liking her father so she tried to reconcile in her own way.

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"They bring me numbness in their bright needles" Plath is finally at peace in the hospital not having to feel any emotion

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The whiteness of the tulips represents calmness and purity.

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Because she puts herself as a Jewish person she puts her father as an enemy and evil incarnate.

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Viewing herself as a Jew shoes she views herself as a defenseless and petrified victim

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"So black no sky could see through" stating no light or goodness could ever penetrate her father, he would always be evil.

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She refers to his speech like a trains because she will never understand his language that is loud and confusing to her.

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Asserting every women loves a brute is referring to her mother and how she fell for a man like her father

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Compares herself to a Jewish person and her father to a German to get the feeling of splitness of her father and her like in Nazi Germany

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Asserts that she felt she could not emotionally talk to her father.

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You can feel the fear her father has instilled in her.