Cinderella

To: All Literature Students and Ms. [Rocker] Lim

Hello, it's really awesome that a blog was opened for Literature stuff, and the best thing is, perhaps, the fact that we can read such excellent poems (:

Here is a poem I read by Sylvia Plath:


Cinderella

The prince leans to the girl in scarlet heels,
Her green eyes slant, hair firing in a fan
Of silver as the roads slows; now reels
Begin in tilted violins to span

The whole revolving tall glass palace hall
Where guests slide gliding into light like wine;
Rose candles flicker on the lilac wall

Reflecting in a million flagons' shine,

And glided couples all in a whirling trance
Follow holiday revel begun lung since,
Until near twelve the strange girl all at once
Guilt-stricken halts, pales, clings to the prince

As amid the hectic music and cocktail talk
She hears the caustic ticking of the clock

-Sylvia Plath

This poem really conveys Plath's rather sarcastic nature, re-telling a fairytale story and interweaving certain elements of magic, and for once, you can kind of understand the context of Plath's poems. As such, I'd like to dispel the fear that Literature students have of Plath's poems as not all her poems are so "suicidal"; however, this poem kind of possesses a haunting quality that's quite cool (:

Hope you guys enjoy the poem as much as I did (:

Hugs & Kisses,

Nicole K.