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Arguments __Two Sisters of Persephone__: Plath contrasted the career woman and the wife and mother woman the wife and mother woman has been lulled into thinking that her life is better and that the career woman has a seemingly worse life full of waste and bitter feeling. However, there are distinct disadvantages to both roles. The woman has two roles in the world, the professional role and the motherly role. A woman must find balance between a woman and a career woman, even though both roles are unfulfilling. __Sow:__ The sexual frustrated unfulfilled woman is an object to the insensitive possessive man, so the woman eats and drinks gluttonously to cope with the frustration. __Colossus:__ Throughout life the speaker and the father have trouble communicating after he dies the speaker tries to salvage the broken relationship. However, the speaker finally accepts that, just like the statue in ruins, she can never put the relationship back together.

__Morning Song:__ When the baby cries in the morning, the speaker feels alienated and loses her individuality.__(sexuality)__ __Tulips:__ The speaker wants to die during surgery, but the tulips (the speakers red blood cells) speaker alive. *The conflict is between the speaker and her body. __In Plaster:__ The speaker is experiencing an internal conflict one self desires death and feels burdened, but the other seld (white) desires a stable life. Ultimately, the two cannot live in unison so the speaker rejects the stable self. __Birthday Present:__ The speaker is having a conversation with herself, convincing herself to accept the present that will take her to eternity. **The speaker does not desire a tangible or traditional birthday present, but instead desires to go to eternity as a means of escaping her womanly roles.** __Bee Meeting:__ The queen bee is exhausted from her duties including laying 1500 eggs a day. The queen is disappointed because the bride flight does not happen and she must keep living. The speaker identifies with the queen bee because she is also exhausted from her womanly roles. __Arrival of the Bee Box__: The speaker identifies with the bees trapped in the box because she feels trapped (by her responsibilities). She considers letting them go, thus escaping the box in the same way as she would be escaping her responsibilities and obligations. __Stings__: Through the sacrifice of the worker bees the queen can escape the hive to die, which relates to the speaker wanted death because she wants to escape her life, duties and responsibilities. __Lady Lazarus__: The speaker does not like going through the process of dying, decomposing, and coming back to life, so she will destroy her oppressors, the doctors, so she will not have to repeat the process again. __Ariel:__ The speaker seeks death and through various transformations ends up like dew and evaporates therefore escaping her domestic duties and life. __Cut:__ The speaker has been at war with her body over whether she lives or dies and is a veteran of this war. War symbolizes that the speaker is a veteran because she is part of a conflict; the will to live of the will to die. …….blood clots?
 * Yes bloot clots, b/c the clotting occurs whenever blood is pouring out of the body; the bleeding stops because of those clots (healing process), which all Plath speakers hate. -Kevin**

__Fever 103__: The fever can kill or purify the speaker from her womanly duties. Her speaker dissolves her old selves and their roles in order to rise to paradise. __Daddy__: The speaker is in a relationship with an oppressive male figure and she breaks all meaningful ties with him. Here are some basic arguments for all the poems if you missed the review session yesterday or if you neglected to write them down. I wasn't really sure how the blood clots fit cohesively into cut's argument to if anyone wants to clear that up it would be greatly appreciated! -Ariane = = =ATTENTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! = = = = = =!!!!!!! THE LOCATION FOR THE MEETING SUNDAY HAS BEEN CHANGED!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS AT THE NORTH TAMPA BRANCH LIBRARY!!!!! = = = =8916 N BLVD FROM 130 TO 430 = BE THERE BY 1 O CLOCK TO PREP

For TWL and LEAR do we have to situate stuff off the top of our head? Because if that is the case then I'll take my zero now. Thanks. Also, Ferrar Burn is about the man who rows against the river right? and the Rahm guy is the guy that killed himself in a plane while making beauty? ^ Context / analysis is more important than situating. & yes to both of the last questions! Remember that Ferrar Burn is a narrative inside a narrative that is actually being told by Paul Glenn & it's not a river, I think it's the ocean.

Fellow Wilson students!

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ATTENTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!! THE LOCATION FOR THE MEETING SUNDAY HAS BEEN CHANGED!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS AT THE NORTH TAMPA BRANCH LIBRARY!!!!! 8916 N BLVD FROM 130 TO 430 Ms. Wilson is willing to help us prepare for orals. She will be there around 1:45, she wants to give us time to pull ourselves together / discuss general ideas. Also! Bring food / drinks if you would like for yourself & to share (:

__Important TWL Sections__

1.4 / 1.14 Inchworm (Panicky Writer) 1.9 Honeybee / Algonquin woman 1.13 Monarch Butterfly 3.1 Chopping Block narrative 3.5 Sphinx Moth 3.10 Vision 4 Writer's Block 6 Ferrar Burn narrative 7 David Rahm narrative --> Ms. Wilson stressed going over __all__ of the narratives in TWL since Dillard used so many of them. Also, understand how each of Dillard's rhetorical strategies supported her argument.
 * Just because Ms. Wilson identified these as key sections, it does not mean that your discussion couldn't be on something else.

__Lear__

Letters Important Incidents Sub Plot vs. Main Plot Irony Re-making of Lear Duty & Service Division of Kingdom / Disorder Folly Bastardy Broken Bonds

--> Do __not__ just summarize the play, you must analyze it!

Remember! Our discussion is on either TWL or Lear, and we do not have any text to go off of. You really need to be able to identify specifics from either of these texts. However, the poems are guaranteed, but we must randomly pick which 20 lines of what poem we get.