Pheasant

• personal note (1)

  -Plath suffers with inadequacy in other feelings also. In the poem pheasant she feels the inadequacy of not only a mother but a wife.
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  plath begins the poem pleading to her husband to stop ruining their marriage due to his acts of infidelity

  "You said you would kill it this morning. Do not kill it. It startles me still."
• para1 she talks about how she cherishes..

  her marriage, and the commitments that come with it to this man

  " It is something to own a pheasant, or to be visited at all"
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  she sees her marriage ase something special, and that one is lucky to have a relationship like hers

  she believes that even the prediciments that come to light can be ironed out if her husband was willing to;

  "it is simply in its element"
• Para 2 However she does acknowlege

  that her relationship is not perfect and does suffer with flaws.

  "i am not mystical; it isn't as if i thought it had a spirit"
• para 2


  In the end though she acknowledges that her marriage is coming to and end and she is unable to prevent it from doing so. She feels as though she is a third wheel to Hughes and his supposed 'mistress'. " I trespass stupidly. Let be Let be."
• concluding in this poem it becomes apparent that.

  she does not feel as if she fulfills the role of a wife. Through her metaphor of a pheasant, she writes a compelling poem highlighting the destruction and devastation of infidelity and marital breakdown.