tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8424212323388794137.post222570745279368412..comments2016-08-12T22:36:28.977+11:00Comments on Moments of Being: Poem o'the Day: Sylvia Plath, "The Detective"Jamie H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04374741012772953047noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8424212323388794137.post-66046108436839463002016-08-12T22:36:28.977+11:002016-08-12T22:36:28.977+11:00Hi Jamie,
Could you please communicate with me AS...Hi Jamie,<br /><br />Could you please communicate with me ASAP? I need to talk to you, please. you can simply email me to muhammed_fattah@yahoo.com<br />ThanksAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18369919403292197297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8424212323388794137.post-46999255685048647042015-08-27T11:26:02.926+11:302015-08-27T11:26:02.926+11:30Because of my interest in the character “Sherlock ...Because of my interest in the character “Sherlock Holmes,” I felt that there was a connection to the character what with the mention of a “pipe” and “Watson,” and there was a murder mystery setting, and although her metaphors were interesting and unusual, I didn't understand the deeper meaning of the poem. As with others, I think it something to do with her dark brooding and perhaps relationship with Hughes, but I couldn't quite get a grip on it. Thanks for the analysis.Robert J. Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17074411091706194461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8424212323388794137.post-71105384735387845792014-08-01T07:20:26.318+11:302014-08-01T07:20:26.318+11:30I still do not understand her poem.I still do not understand her poem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8424212323388794137.post-73746230417068228792014-04-24T16:30:15.403+11:302014-04-24T16:30:15.403+11:30The overall meaning of the poem, peeled from its s...The overall meaning of the poem, peeled from its semi-biographical incidentals, is simply "where has my life gone?"<br />The speaker is here investigating the loss of life--peculiarly different from death, which tends to leave a corpse. So the detective posits 'vaporization' in a kind of desperate humor. It's a poem of middle-age, of bodily changes, of gradual symbolic erosion of self by day to day living. In the end, our detective (THE detective, really--no less than Sherlock Holmes!) asks Watson to "Make notes," which is an invocation of the poem itself. ('Make' instead of 'take' here, so as to echo the classic invocation of the poet as 'Maker.') Watson's notes are the poem itself, the only evidence of spent time--the author's and the reader's alike. Great stuff.kenand66https://www.blogger.com/profile/16658958454281748364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8424212323388794137.post-62060557880508253002013-08-30T14:31:30.115+11:302013-08-30T14:31:30.115+11:30I'm almost sure SP wasn't thinking of pest...I'm almost sure SP wasn't thinking of pesticides. I think that as the role of women in the world is increasing and the role of the man-woman relationship is being revised, the greatest fear for women is that they won't really be there at all in a fully human way, but somehow maintained, as they have all too often been in the past , as a useful convenience for the male. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8424212323388794137.post-56407859458516485312013-02-28T13:44:33.459+11:302013-02-28T13:44:33.459+11:30This poem also shows her view on chemical pesticid...This poem also shows her view on chemical pesticides not her personal life. "The milk came yellow, then blue and sweet as water." the health problems chemicals cause and the crow can also represent the death of anything living in that valley that was killed by the chemicals. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8424212323388794137.post-5053041481305029512013-01-14T09:57:30.177+11:302013-01-14T09:57:30.177+11:30I still don't understand the significance and ...I still don't understand the significance and the overall meaning of the poem. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8424212323388794137.post-14308951806679021032012-07-08T04:12:16.581+11:302012-07-08T04:12:16.581+11:30Great analysis! It was interesting to read :)Great analysis! It was interesting to read :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8424212323388794137.post-28090655156142625812010-05-27T22:19:56.880+11:302010-05-27T22:19:56.880+11:30brilliant analysis, enjoyed reading this! :)brilliant analysis, enjoyed reading this! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com