in a poem whose last stanza claims "Napoleon is pleased, he is pleased with everything" and describes these things as having "a notion of honor" and a "black intractable mind".
These things are said to have "got so far. Seventy feet high! Russia, Poland and Germany!" in a poem whose last stanza claims "Napoleon is pleased, he is pleased with everything" and describes these things as having "a notion of honor" and a "black intractable mind". The speaker of another poem about these creatures describes herself as "Pillar of white in a blackout of knives" after joining the rector, the midwife, and the sexton to dress up for a "meeting" involving them. They are said to live on "Tate and Lyle" in the poem "Wintering", which asserts that they are "all (*) women, maids and the long royal lady." Another poem describes them as "women who only scurry, whose news is the open cherry, the open clover". The "chore-girl" tells these creatures that "Mistress Mary is dead and gone!" in a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. For 10 points, identify these creatures, the subjects of a five-poem sequence by Sylvia Plath that includes "The Swarm" and "The Sting".
These things are said to have "got so far. Seventy feet high!
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