Apprehensions
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Isolation Rendered as Walls
Plath’s poem stages a sequence of colored walls as metaphors for escalating internal states. Each wall—white, grey, red, black—conveys distance, despair, bodily vulnerability and looming annihilation. Imagery of indifferent angels, bleeding light, spiral steps and wheeled removal evokes acute isolation, terror of being reduced, and inability to escape the mind. The closing rush suggests relentless, approaching forces rather than resolution.
Read Complete AnalysesThere is this white wall, above which the sky creates itself- Infinite, green, utterly untouchable. Angels swim in it, and the stars, in indifference also. They are my medium. The sun dissolves on this wall, bleeding its lights. A grey wall now, clawed and bloody. Is there no way out of the mind? Steps at my back spiral into a well. There are no trees or birds in this world, There is only sourness. This red wall winces continually: A red fist, opening and closing, Two grey, papery bags- This is what i am made of, this, and a terror Of being wheeled off under crosses and rain of pieties. On a black wall, unidentifiable birds Swivel their heads and cry. There is no talk of immorality amoun these! Cold blanks approach us: They move in a hurry.
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