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Sylvia Plath - Landowners

From my rented attic with no earth
To call my own except the air-motes,
I malign the leaden perspective
Of identical gray brick houses,
Orange roof-tiles, orange chimney pots,
And see that first house, as if between
Mirrors, engendering a spectral
Corridor of inane replicas,
Flimsily peopled.
                  But landowners
Own thier cabbage roots, a space of stars,
Indigenous peace. Such substance makes
My eyeful of reflections a ghost's
Eyeful, which, envious,would define
Death as striking root on one land-tract;
Life, its own vaporous wayfarings.

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Poet: Sylvia Plath (Sylvia Plath Art)
Poem: Landowners
Volume: The Collected Poems
Year: Published/Written in 1956
Poem of the Day: Nov 30 2004

Comment 1 of 1, added on March 6th, 2009 at 6:11 PM.

This poem is a very good one. It tells the audience that it is about landowners and the americans. Well Done :)

Hayley Welch from Australia

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