Poppies in October

POPPIES IN OCTOBER
CRITICAL APPRECIATION.
1) This poem of Plath is of this period when she wrote mainly about violence, but this poem is about enchanting and breath taking beauty of Poppy . The poem has the same toxicating effect as poppies. These are so beautiful that even the bright red and shiny sun cannot passaround them and had to stop to watch the beauty of these showy flowers. And the woman who is in the ambulance cannot evade their charm. Her heart has gone after them and she is spell bound.
2) A gift of beauty, a natural talent bestowed over these little flowers, was unasked for. It is heavenly as beauty always is. Encircling and burning intensely and brightly arousing passion whichis at the same time sweet and insane and dangerous like carbon monoxides through eyes and is dimmed when the shady petals are closed or not complete;y open.
3) Plath must be feeling like Wordsworth did when he saw " The Daffodils" for she says:
" O my God, what am I
That these late mouths should cry open".
Thus poppies welcome the visitors by opening their petals and giving a bright grim in the chill and frosty season.
4) Popppies are well known symbol of Remembrance Day. The setting can be interpreted in many ways: it can be a woman tending to a patient, or a woman fighting for her life. Upon the mention of skirts, forests and cornflower and a love gift, usually given to women, one gets the strong feminine impression.
5) Her hair red, can also be compared to the poppies. Is it a coincidence that the month chosen is prior. to the one which poppies reign? this section holds a key to the setting presented in the poem and may be the emotion conjured by the over surge of automobiles.
6) Carbon monoxide, toxic and distasteful can be dangerous to all who inhale too much of it or little bits too often. It is a negative thing, which leads to concluding that this piece has a anegative feeling.
7) Emotions such as distress and sadness are important to Sylvia Plath poems. Most of her poems are based on these two easy to relate emotions, and loosely on the pleasure it can motivate you to seek and enjoy when you have it.
8) The most frequent colour here is red. Poppies are red, her hair is red, love is associated with red and so is a heart. Reds of lighter tones are usually connected with lust, anger and rage and those deeper reds with love, passion andheat.
9) Poppies are of a lighter red, they might represent the anger in the poem, the blood if there is any in the ambulance etc.
10) When she speaks of God, and crying in nature, we can say it is his creation that she is crying out for His creation; bountiful, pleasant and beautiful, she is asking almost for permission to speak and be in the company of beauty. The last lines each keats idea of beauty.
"As thing of beautyis a joy for ever
Its loveliness increases, it will never,
Pass into nothingness;