Sylvia Plath Quotations

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. "There would be a nobility then, there would be a birthday. And the knife not carve, but enter Pure and clean as the cry of a baby, And the _____ slide from my side." world universe blood darkness

2. "The black bull ____ before the sea. The sea, till that day orderly, Hove up against Bendylaw." hollared snorted bellowed grunted

3. "Day now, night now, at head, side, feet, They stand their vigil in gowns of stone, Faces blank as the day I was born, Their ______ long in the setting sun That never brightens or goes down." faces frowns smiles shadows

4. "...Then I was seeing A melding of shapes in a hot rain: Horses warped on the altering green, Outlandish as double-humped camels or ______" jabberwocks unicorns centaurs wyverns

5. "Old man, you _____ seldom. Then you come in with the tide's coming When seas wash cold, foam- " materialize appear surface come up

6. "Little poppies, little hell flames, Do you do no harm? You flicker. I cannot ____ you. I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns." catch touch seize feel

7. "As the gods began one world, and man another, So the snakecharmer begins a snaky sphere With moon-eye, mouth-pipe. He pipes. Pipes green. Pipes ____." water scales earth light

8. "He smoldered, as if stone-deaf, blindfold, His body beached with the sea's _____, A machine to breathe and beat forever. " garbage flotsam rubbish jetsam

9. "Hands moving move priestlier Than priest's hands, invoke no vain Images of light and ____ But sure stations in bronze, wood, stone." foam cloud air dream

10. "Overnight, very Whitely, discreetly, Very quietly Our toes, our noses Take hold on the loam, Acquire the ____." sky air ground earth