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9 Cards in this Set
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Source #2 Card# 5 "Overnight, very whitely, discreetly, very quietly" |
Sylvia Plath is describing the mushrooms growth, which also refers to the rising up of oppressed people, discreetly and without much notice. It shows how they are rising without much noise or commotion. |
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Source #2 Card# 6 "Our toes, our noses take hold on the loam, acquire the air." |
In these lines Sylvia is putting herself in the place of the mushrooms, or oppressed people. She is talking about taking hold of the world around her. |
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Source #2 Card# 7 "Nobody sees us, stops us, betrays us; the small grains make room." |
This shows how the mushrooms, (oppressed) are growing/rising without interruption from others. It is happening in such a secret like of way that nobody is noticing enough to bother the process. |
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Source #2 Card# 8 "Soft fists insist on heaving the needles, the leafy bedding, even the paving. Our hammers, our rams, earless and eyeless, perfectly voiceless, widen the crannies, shoulder through holes." |
Plath is setting a sinister image of how they are eyeless and voiceless and earless. In this case she is describing oppressed people as having a difference that puts them apart from others in society, yet even with this "disablement", they fight their way up through even the toughest of instances. |
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Source #2 Card# 9 "We diet on water, on bread crumbs of shadow, bland-mannered, asking little or nothing." |
These lines are saying how the oppressed are living with a lot lesser than other people, they are living dull lives due to being given or treated lesser. It also shows that given the same things such as rights or treatment isn't much at all to ask for, so when asking for just that, it is them asking for little. |
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Source #2 Card# 10 "So many of us! So many of us!" |
By using repetition in saying this, Plath is showing the importance of it. Their are so many people oppressed and she wanted to make that something that stands out to the reader. The group of people dealing with oppression wasn't a small number. |
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Source #2 Card# 11 "We are shelves, we are tables, we are meek, we are edible," |
This group of people are given little thought due to not being a large enough number to outweigh others in society, yet these people also hold a significant and essential humility. |
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Source #2 Card# 12 "Nudgers and shovers, in spite of ourselves. Our kind multiplies:" |
Here Plath is describing how these oppressed people and finally going through self-realization and understanding their own importance. She is saying how more and more people are realizing this. |
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Source #2 Card# 13 "We shall by morning inherit the earth. Our foot's in the door." |
This is the final lines in the poem and probably the most important. This quote could be taken as a promise or a threat, it is saying that these people have a foothold in society and refuse to be shut out. She uses the term 'by morning' because she is making it clear that they will not let change take a long time to happen. |
