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Burning at a hundred and three with Sylvia Plath. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
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Sylvia Plath was one of the most dynamic and admired poets...
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Fever 103°. Sylvia Plath. Track 26 on Ariel. One of Plath’s best-known poems, part of the group collected posthumously in the volume Ariel, “Fever 103°” dramatizes a high, possibly ...
The poem depicts the physical and emotional agony of the speaker as their body and mind succumb to the fever's effects. The relentless imagery of hell and sin suggests the speaker's sense of guilt and self-condemnation.
‘Fever 103°’ by Sylvia Plath is a very complex and powerful poem that speaks on themes of desire, purity, freedom, and women’s rights/independence. The poem is composed of a series of images that take the reader into the speaker’s state of mind.
13 sie 2007 · The nightmarish imagery morphs: smoke to scarf to knot to noose, infant to orchid to a jungly overgrown garden. The poem is a fever-smear, a dreamy nightmare, fully infecting us—half by image and half by sound. By the flash-light of her fevered vision, Plath leads us into an apocalyptic wasteland.
"Fever 103°" was first published in Sylvia Plath's posthumous collection Ariel (1965), although she wrote the poem in 1962. The combination of hellish and heavenly imagery reflects her state of mental anguish (she suffered all her life from clinical depression) and in a broadcast on the BBC she stated: "This poem is about two kinds of fire ...
Sylvia Plath’s Fever 103° is a powerful and haunting poem that explores the experience of illness and the fear of death. The narrative voice and tone of the poem are crucial to its impact, as they create a sense of urgency and desperation that draws the reader in and holds them captive.
