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Sylvia Plath - Frog Autumn

Summer grows old, cold-blooded mother. 
The insects are scant, skinny. 
In these palustral homes we only 
Croak and wither. 

Mornings dissipate in somnolence. 
The sun brightens tardily 
Among the pithless reeds. Flies fail us. 
he fen sickens. 

Frost drops even the spider. Clearly 
The genius of plenitude 
Houses himself elsewhwere. Our folk thin 
Lamentably.

Added: on January 7th, 2005 at 9:00 AM | Viewed: 8572 times | Comments and analysis of Frog Autumn by Sylvia Plath Comments (3)


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Poet: Sylvia Plath
Poem: Frog Autumn
Poem of the Day: Mar 25 2004

Comment 3 of 3, added on December 20th, 2005 at 11:57 AM.

This poem sucks! Okay, i don't care who you are it's awful. What in tarnations was she thinkin' when she used all those big words. Normal people don't talk like that. At home we walk down the street and say howdy, not the insects are getting very skinny.

Laura Mooneyham from United States
Comment 2 of 3, added on December 1st, 2005 at 9:57 AM.

as we all know in our history books that Sylvia Plath
Lived a depressing life. and what I got out of this poem Frog Autumn I felt that the life of hers is being relived again in her poems. It's a good one but by the feeling that I got was depressing

Richard R. Collins Jr from United States
Comment 1 of 3, added on January 7th, 2005 at 9:00 AM.

Just a suggestion of what this might mean. If you look at "Mushrooms", you can tell that it was about the women's struggle for more civil liberties. They were gaing strength. In this poem, it seems that she's discouraged. There is little to eat (no energy, no fuel to keep their campaign going). Just a suggestion. Anyone else care to comment? agree? disagree?

Jazmine from United States

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