"Cut" Poem Responce
The poem “Cut” by Sylvia Plath is about a lady who accidentally cuts her
thumb off while chopping vegetables and describes how she saw it. The
poem uses a lot of techniques and the mood always varies.
Plath uses various techniques in this poem like similes and metaphors. The way the techniques are used gives you a better image of what’s happening and shows us what she’d imagine it to be. An example of a metaphor being used is “A million soldiers run, Redcoats every one.” She’s creating an image of Redcoat soldiers going to war as blood rushing out of her thumb. Another example of a simile used is “A flap like a hat” She’s comparing top of the thumb like a hat.
The mood always changes in the poem, one moment she could be excited then the next she could be angry or sad. The way the mood changes makes you keep wanting to read on to see what other weird and whacky things she’s going to say next. An example of the mood changing is at the start she says “What a thrill ---- My thumb instead of an onion.” She seems quite shocked but excited, but by the end of the poem her mood completely changes by her being angry and hating herself when she says “How you jump ---- Trepanned veteran, Dirty girl, Thumb stump.”
I don’t really like poems but this poem kept me entertained because of all the weird things she described her thumb as. I liked how the mood kept changing because it made me keep reading on, if it kept the same mood through out the poem like others, it would have been boring and repetitive. Overall it was a good poem
Plath uses various techniques in this poem like similes and metaphors. The way the techniques are used gives you a better image of what’s happening and shows us what she’d imagine it to be. An example of a metaphor being used is “A million soldiers run, Redcoats every one.” She’s creating an image of Redcoat soldiers going to war as blood rushing out of her thumb. Another example of a simile used is “A flap like a hat” She’s comparing top of the thumb like a hat.
The mood always changes in the poem, one moment she could be excited then the next she could be angry or sad. The way the mood changes makes you keep wanting to read on to see what other weird and whacky things she’s going to say next. An example of the mood changing is at the start she says “What a thrill ---- My thumb instead of an onion.” She seems quite shocked but excited, but by the end of the poem her mood completely changes by her being angry and hating herself when she says “How you jump ---- Trepanned veteran, Dirty girl, Thumb stump.”
I don’t really like poems but this poem kept me entertained because of all the weird things she described her thumb as. I liked how the mood kept changing because it made me keep reading on, if it kept the same mood through out the poem like others, it would have been boring and repetitive. Overall it was a good poem
