https://blog.thameera.com Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:42:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.12 139676693 https://blog.thameera.com/the-hanging-man/ https://blog.thameera.com/the-hanging-man/#comments thameera Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:42:20 +0000 Uncategorized poetry suicide http://thameera.wordpress.com/?p=646 By the roots of my hair some god got hold of me. I sizzled in his blue volts like a desert prophet. The nights snapped out of sight like a lizard’s eyelid: A world of bald white days in a shadeless socket. A vulturous boredom pinned me in this tree. If he were I, he…<p><a class="more-link" href="https://blog.thameera.com/the-hanging-man/" title="Continue reading ‘The Hanging Man’">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> <blockquote><p>By the roots of my hair some god got hold of me.<br/> I sizzled in his blue volts like a desert prophet.</p> <p>The nights snapped out of sight like a lizard’s eyelid:<br/> A world of bald white days in a shadeless socket.</p> <p>A vulturous boredom pinned me in this tree.<br/> If he were I, he would do what I did.</p></blockquote> <p>The poem is written by <a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/11" target="_blank">Sylvia Plath</a> who committed suicide in 1963. She was awarded with the Pulitzer prize after her death.</p> <p>For those who get the meaning of the poem, you may also be interested in the cases surrounding Ernest Hemingway’s suicide in 1961.</p> https://blog.thameera.com/the-hanging-man/feed/ 4 646