Death & Co. (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Sylvia Plath
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Suicide, Poetry or poets, Death or dying, Life and death, Consciousness, Self-revelations
The Poem
“Death & Co.” is a short poem in free verse, its thirty-one lines divided into seven stanzas. The title suggests the name of a business or corporation; its function is to establish the mood of the poem, which is ironic and mocking. Death is often viewed with ambivalence, something that not only takes away life but also (sometimes mistakenly) offers comfort to those who are in pain or who believe in an afterlife; death can seem cold and officious, but also, perhaps, ironic in the form it finally takes. The poem is written in the first person in the form of a...
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