Sylvia Plath reading 'Cut'

[Cut,] What a thrill -
My thumb instead of an onion.
The top quite gone
Except for a sort of hinge
Of skin,
A flap like a hat,
Dead white.
Then that red plush.
Little pilgrim,
The Indian's axed your scalp.
Your turkey wattle
Carpet rolls
Straight from the heart.
I step on it,
Clutching my bottle
Of pink fizz.
A celebration, this is.
Out of a gap
A million soldiers run,
Redcoats, every one.
Whose side are they on?
O my
Homunculus, I am ill.
I have taken a pill to kill
The thin
Papery feeling.
Saboteur,
Kamikaze man -
The stain on your
Gauze Ku Klux Klan
Babushka
Darkens and tarnishes and when
The balled
Pulp of your heart
Confronts its small
Mill of silence
How you jump -
Trepanned veteran,
Dirty girl,
Thumb stump.

[@steampoweredpixel]

The way she describes getting cut in the poem makes her readers almost FEEL IT themselves. 😱

[@aemilianalorionis]

This is the first Plath poem I ever read; I adore it so much, her use of the metaphor is utterly masterful.

[@daniel-ok7xy]

plath is gat

[@jamiedaly5777]

This one's my fave I think!

[@GS-cg3yn]

As much as I want to understand poetry, I do not. A failing of my own.

[@loopyboy1989]

It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there.

[@daniel-ok7xy]

good

[@daniel-ok7xy]

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[@fleshedexperience]

Thrilling indeed.

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Bro this ain't 21 savage ☠

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First!!!!!!

[@ayshazaheen3402]

and only

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Well I’ll beit you actually were first and always will be congrats ♥️

[@daniel-ok7xy]

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[@Torarozario]

What a thrill -
My thumb instead of an onion.
The top quite gone
Except for a sort of hinge
Of skin,
A flap like a hat,
Dead white.
Then that red plush.
Little pilgrim,
The Indian's axed your scalp.
Your turkey wattle
Carpet rolls
Straight from the heart.
I step on it,
Clutching my bottle
Of pink fizz. A celebration, this is.
Out of a gap
A million soldiers run,
Redcoats, every one.
Whose side are they on?
O my
Homunculus, I am ill.
I have taken a pill to kill
The thin
Papery feeling.
Saboteur,
Kamikaze man -
The stain on your
Gauze Ku Klux Klan
Babushka
Darkens and tarnishes and when
The balled
Pulp of your heart
Confronts its small
Mill of silence
How you jump -
Trepanned veteran,
Dirty girl,
Thumb stump.

[@daniel-ok7xy]

u are NOT the baby 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@ezratlas]

christ i love her

[@daniel-ok7xy]

okay buddie

[@loopyboy1989]

Only out-siders have been there,

[@daniel-ok7xy]

capi gone went

[@themarkofglass]

Ow how I adore her.

[@jenniferjryu971]

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[@daniel-ok7xy]

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