The Hanging Man
The Hanging Man - context Summary
Published in Ariel
Published in the 1962 Ariel collection, "The Hanging Man" presents compressed, violent imagery of being seized and immobilized. The speaker experiences electrical, prophetic anguish and a barren perception of time, visualized as a tree and a shadeless socket. The poem is often read against Plath's personal struggles; its confinement and relentless boredom reflect recurring themes of mental distress and entrapment in her later work.
Read Complete AnalysesBy the roots of my hair some god got hold of me. I sizzled in his blue volts like a desert prophet. The nights snapped out of sight like a lizard's eyelid : A world of bald white days in a shadeless socket. A vulturous boredom pinned me in this tree. If he were I, he would do what I did.
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