"At about this point I began to feel peculiar. I looked round me at all the rows of rapt little heads with the same silver glow on them at the front and the same black shadow on them at the back, and they looked like nothing more or less than a lot of stupid moonbrains."
— Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
William Heinemann Ltd.
Date
1963
Metaphor
"At about this point I began to feel peculiar. I looked round me at all the rows of rapt little heads with the same silver glow on them at the front and the same black shadow on them at the back, and they looked like nothing more or less than a lot of stupid moonbrains."
Metaphor in Context
At about this point I began to feel peculiar. I looked round me at all the rows of rapt little heads with the same silver glow on them at the front and the same black shadow on them at the back, and they looked like nothing more or less than a lot of stupid moonbrains.
(p. 42)
(p. 42)
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Reading
Citation
Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar. Modern Classics Deluxe Edition. New York: HarperPerennial, 2006.
Date of Entry
06/11/2009
