The Night Dances
Sylvia Plath
A smile fell in the grass.
Irretrievable!
And how will your night dances
Lose themselves. In mathematics?
Such pure leaps and spirals ----
Surely they travel
The world forever, I shall not entirely
Sit emptied of beauties, the gift
Of your small breath, the drenched grass
Smell of your sleeps, lilies, lilies.
Their flesh bears no relation.
Cold folds of ego, the calla,
And the tiger, embellishing itself ----
Spots, and a spread of hot petals.
The comets
Have such a space to cross,
Such coldness, forgetfulness.
So your gestures flake off ----
Warm and human, then their pink light
Bleeding and peeling
Through the black amnesias of heaven.
Why am I given
These lamps, these planets
Falling like blessings, like flakes
Six sided, white
On my eyes, my lips, my hair
Touching and melting.
Nowhere.
Eh Wah - I can tell you read this poem by carefully following the punctuation Sylvia Plath uses in her writing. The dramatic pausing you used shows you understand the importance of structure in poems. I agree that Plath is talking about snowflakes but why does she also talk about planets and flowers? What do you think a night dance is? Keep working hard on theme! Sylvia Plath is not an easy author to understand. I'm so proud of you for picking such a difficult poem! - Mrs. Greason
ReplyDeleteEh Wah- I love the way you read it so well. I was not surprised because I knew you could do it.Also,I love the way you told us what the main idea is and you told us how you knew it was the main idea.I knew you could do it! I thought the theme was nature is also special because it just didn't talk about snow it talked about more nature like flowers,hot pedals and light.-Sara
ReplyDeleteEh-wah- you did such an amazing job. What types of emotions were you thinking? I love how you explained the theme. Good job! I can visualize the snowflakes too. I had no clue what this poem was about. I agree with you that it is about snowflakes. I loved how you read it. Zaira Samad
ReplyDeleteI felt good and Eh Wah i knew you could do it! But you done a better by reading it more fluently wenn you said spot twice
DeleteEh Wah- You did wonderful. But why you think the theme was about snowflakes? Isn't there more because I thought it would be more about winter because it talked about more. - Alexus
ReplyDeleteAlexus-I agree with you about the theme being more about winter and snowflakes. There was other nature related things in the poem. Also maybe you can expalin more about your thinking in your comments.-Brett
DeleteBrett - I love how you used the thinking stem: "I agreed with you..." Great job! So what do you think the theme is? - Mrs. Greason
DeleteEhwah - I love how you tell me what the main idea is and the theme is but i what to know is that why did you pick that was the theme.I really don't get what you are trying to show me. How You uderstand the story.Why do you think wrote this poem the author.amaya
ReplyDeleteEh Wah- I know you are a fleunt reader. Becase, you stop at comas, and perods. I like your theme by the way. What were you thinking while you were reading? PLEASE REPLY!!!Izak-:)
ReplyDeleteizak- i was thinking while lisening to eh wah i thout wow she did fantastice even though she had a little trouble we all make mistakes so don't worry about that okay. :)-sheila
ReplyDeleteehwah-i like how you said that dig word.and why did you thank the theam was about snow flaks.p.s.i thank the theam is about seasons.-destinee.
ReplyDeleteDestinee - You need to work on making your comments look professional by capitalizing and punctuating. Also, why do you think the theme is about snowflakes? - Mrs. Greason
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