All the bits she might normally think about are washed away.

They “turn to [her]”. There is an example of alliteration in lines three and four with “learning” and “light lies” as well as “white walls”. Her choice of adjectives - "excitable," "red," vivid" - all imbue them with a sense of liveliness. The red colour of the flowers is then compared to “tongues” and “red lead sinkers”. Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in. The word “pupil” is an example of a pun. This “white swaddling” resembles that in which one would wrap a child.The poet makes a connection between the brutal redness of the flowers and that of her wound. She is constantly drawn to them, so much so it feels as if everything in the room is as well. She sues personification again to describe how they “hurt her”. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions. This is part of the peace that she is finding. This is a complex and disturbing image of familial relationships. One critic described the effect of the tulips on the speaker as the feeling one experiences when his or her leg begins to prickle with feeling after having fallen asleep. It was originally published in Ariel. She is reminded of land, far away, that she used to inhabit. She is but a “thirty-year-old cargo boat” whose former life has disappeared. She didn’t want to these loud, bright flowers, or the shock they brought her.

They supply her with a focal point that she didn’t want.The ninth stanza of the poem is also focused on the tulips. Here, she does not have a “self.” She does not have to worry about her family, the pressures of being a woman, her education, etc. She is thirty, but she has been stubborn in that which she’s held onto. The speaker is in a hospital bed and describes her experience using an image of red She wishes to remain in a state of emptiness, but the flowers intrude upon this state:The Collected Poems, Harper & Row, New York, 1981 Annotated by Stanford, Ann Folwell She is most definitely not a happy camper. They are then compared to breathing babies that make noise through their gift paper. This refers to her “name and address” which are likely posted on her bed. She is thin, without substance and caught between two sides. It was peaceful and breathing was easy. These things identify her and are all that’s left when she is “swabbed” clear of her “loving associations”.As a cargo boat, and while continuing the image of water and its powers, Plath describes sinking into the anesthetic while watching her life move away from her. The poem begins with the speaker noting the arrival of red tulips … They’re pulling at her painfully. In other words, she treasures the whiteness and sterility because they allow her an existence devoid of any self, in which she is defined by no more than the feeling she has at any particular moment. She wants to “efface” herself and remove herself from that world but it’s not that easy.At the beginning of the eighth stanza, the speaker reminds the reader of the way that the tulips transformed the atmosphere of the room when they “came”. What attracts her to the sterility of the hospital room is that it allows her to ignore the complications and pains of living. One knows that eventually they are going to get free and someone is going to get hurt. It also alludes to some of the larger complications in Plath’s life, those that led to her eventual suicide.In the following lines she compares the movements of the nurses as they pass her to “gulls” that “pass inland their white caps”. It occurs when a line is cut off before its natural stopping point. They are “dangerous animals” trapped behind bars. In this case, she says the nurses “they tend [her body] as water / Tends to the pebbles it must run over, smoothing them gently”.Imagery refers to the elements of a poem that engage a reader’s senses. Even their color reminds her of her wound, which implicitly suggests it reminds her of her past.

They watch her as no one has watched her before.

She uses a simile to describe her position on the bed in lines one and two of this stanza. It “opens and closes” trying to hang onto a life that her mind no longer wants. "“Tulips,” written on March 18th, 1961, is one of Plath’s most beloved and critically acclaimed poems. In fact, they are dangerous and alluring like an African cat. “Tulips,” written on March 18th, 1961, is one of Plath’s most beloved and critically acclaimed poems.

She compare this state to being a nun.The fifth stanza brings the poem back around to the tulips that were mentioned briefly in the first stanza. The red tulips remind her of reality, life, and all that “weigh[s her] down”. The tulips become very foreboding and lifelike in this stanza. This is another example of water as an important Her attention, which was once drifting peacefully and freely, is now focused. This is a comment on their colour in relation to everything else around her.Another important technique commonly used in poetry is enjambment. By bringing warmth and noise to the room, they demand she acknowledge the vivacity of life. The spell of the hospital room is broken.” In other words, she comes to realize that life is her natural state, and that she will fight for it instinctively in the way her heart beats instinctively. The purity is in the cleanliness of her mind. Plath, as the “stupid pupil…has to take everything in”. They not only watch her, but also insist that she watch them. This allows her the opportunity to describe herself physically and mentally, as she sees herself in the window. Please continue to help us support the fight against dementia.Subscribe to our mailing list to get the latest and greatest poetry updates.What's your thoughts? The light, which thins and widens one a day casts her as “flat, ridiculous, a cut-paper shadow”. They allow the poet to express something beyond the explicit. Uroff agrees, seeing the end of the poem as a tentative return to health, but also views the poem as an expression of the mind's ability to “generate hyperboles to torture itself.” In other words, he does not want the general interpretation - that the speaker chooses life - to distract from the harshness of her perspective towards life.

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