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Mushrooms

Published: Sept. 14, 2020, 2:02 p.m.

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I don\'t know much of Plath\'s writing and I found this in an anthology a few years ago and marked the page. The poem, like the mushrooms it describes, is both undemonstrative and yet insistent. There are some gorgeous and unusual repeated sounds, for example

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"Over night ... whitely ... quietly" 

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".... soft fists insist ..."

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The use of sound and rhythm in this poem is a useful reminder that it\'s not necessary to be loud, obvious or to tower over others to be meaningful or even powerful.

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Read the text of the poem here: https://allpoetry.com/poem/8498359-Mushrooms-by-Sylvia-Plath

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