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Poet: Sylvia Plath
Poem: Two Sisters Of Persephone
Poem of the Day:
Dec 12 2004
Comment 44 of 44, added on May 24th, 2007 at 8:21 PM.
Plaths peom of "Two Sisters of Persephone" describe the two sides of Perspehone from the Greek mythology. We know from the mythological story that Hades, god of the underworld and the dead, had taken Persephone down to his dark world. Pershpones mother had begged Hades to give her back her daughter and Zeus made them compromise, Hades would get Persephone half of the year and her mother, Demeter, would get her the other half of the year. While Persephone was with her mother she was happy and so the earth went through spring and summer, but while she went to the dark underwold with Hades, Persephone was sad and gloomy and so we have winter, when the earth is cold and barren. Plaths poem makes and allusion to this myth in that she uses dichotomies to describe the two sides of Persephone through two sisters.
One interesting thing about Plaths writing is that she uses enjambment in her writing, in the first stanza of this poem get an introduction to the "two sisters" and then she goes into the first sister without the use of punctuation. The first sister is described as "shade" (line 3) and being in a dark place so right away we see that this is making a refrence to winter and the time Persphone spends with Hades.
The second sister is describes as "light" (line 3), "bronzed as the earth" (line 13), and "sun's bride" (line 21) and that makes a refrence that this is Perspehone when she is with her mother and so she is a metaphor for spring.
Jamie Islas (Curie HS Student) from United States
Comment 43 of 44, added on February 10th, 2006 at 11:02 AM.
This poem actually reminded me of my younger sister and myself when we were younger. She was seen as the perfect child that knew so much, was so gifted, and perfect in every way. I was the lackadaisical child that was ignorant and pathetic and would amount to nothing. This poem makes me remember how my sister was to be "the perfect woman" and I was not a woman at all.
Kedran Mackenzie from United States
Comment 42 of 44, added on January 18th, 2006 at 2:57 PM.
I thought that this poem was very interesting because of all the juxtapositions of adjectives and nouns, in addition to all the puns that are used throughout.
Amethyst from United Kingdom
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Plaths peom of "Two Sisters of Persephone" describe the two sides of Perspehone from the Greek mythology. We know from the mythological story that Hades, god of the underworld and the dead, had taken Persephone down to his dark world. Pershpones mother had begged Hades to give her back her daughter and Zeus made them compromise, Hades would get Persephone half of the year and her mother, Demeter, would get her the other half of the year. While Persephone was with her mother she was happy and so the earth went through spring and summer, but while she went to the dark underwold with Hades, Persephone was sad and gloomy and so we have winter, when the earth is cold and barren. Plaths poem makes and allusion to this myth in that she uses dichotomies to describe the two sides of Persephone through two sisters.
One interesting thing about Plaths writing is that she uses enjambment in her writing, in the first stanza of this poem get an introduction to the "two sisters" and then she goes into the first sister without the use of punctuation. The first sister is described as "shade" (line 3) and being in a dark place so right away we see that this is making a refrence to winter and the time Persphone spends with Hades.
The second sister is describes as "light" (line 3), "bronzed as the earth" (line 13), and "sun's bride" (line 21) and that makes a refrence that this is Perspehone when she is with her mother and so she is a metaphor for spring.
Jamie Islas (Curie HS Student) from United States