Another poem describes them as "women who only scurry, whose news is the open cherry, the open clover".
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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