what did the the poet say in the opening lines??
from the poem*THE BEES*
Answers
In the first two lines of the stanza the poet says, “The purpose of our life is not only to enjoy or be sad.”
Answer:
The wooden bee box that I ordered has arrived. It’s square and really heavy, and kind of reminds me of a small coffin for a little person or a square-shaped baby. Well, it would if there weren't so much noise inside of it.
Because the box is locked and unsafe, I’ll have to keep it with me all through the night and always stay by its side. It’s hard to see what is inside as there are no windows, just a small eye-hatch. Nothing can get out.
I look inside through that small eye-hatch. It’s so dark in there. It seems like it's full of the hands of African slaves on a slave ship, made tiny for export, angrily pushing against each other and fighting for space.
How could I possibly set them free? The noise is the thing that frightens me most, sounding as it does like some nonsense language. It sounds like an angry crowd in ancient Rome—harmless individually, but in a group—yikes!
I listen closer to the noise that's like angry Latin. I could never be a leader like Caesar. The truth is, I've bought a box full of total crazies. Maybe I’ll return them. If I don’t feed them, they will die—it’s up to me.
Are they hungry? If I set them free, would they forget about me? What if I simply let them loose and then just faded into the background like a tree? Perhaps like a laburnum with its yellow flowers, with cherry trees nearby.
They'd probably just ignore me while I was dressed in my protective bee-keeping suit with its funeral-veil-like head covering. I can’t help them make honey, so what use am I? Tomorrow I promise to be a
good master and let them go.
Anyway, the box won’t last forever
theme of poem
Explanation:
“The Arrival of the Bee Box” is a poem by Sylvia Plath, one of the most prominent American poets of the 20th century. It was published in her bestselling collection Ariel, and forms parts of a sequence of poems that involve bees in some shape or form. In the poem, the first-person speaker receives the bee box that she “ordered.” She contemplates her power over the box and the bees, variously feeling like does and doesn’t want it. By the end, she resolves to set the bees free—but will only do so “tomorrow,” ensuring the poem ends on a note of irresolution.