Edge (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Sylvia Plath
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Children, Suicide, Virginity or virgins, Flowers, Women, Death or dying, Life and death, Moon or moons, Perfectionism
The Poem
“Edge” is a short poem in free verse; its twenty lines are divided into ten couplet stanzas. The title suggests a border, perhaps between life and death. One of the last two poems written by Sylvia Plath before her suicide, “Edge” is a meditation on the death of a woman.
Written in the third person, the poem may give the impression of offering a detached judgment of the dead woman. This point of view usually suggests a less subjective perspective than the first person. The apparently objective imagery of the poem, however, disguises a high degree of...
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Sylvia Plath (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Sylvia Plath (Poetry)Sylvia Plath (Short Fiction)Sylvia Plath (Dictionary of World Biography)Sylvia Plath (Identities and Issues)Sylvia Plath (Women’s Issues)
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