This figure is "gold-jacketed, solid silver, nickel-tipped" in a poem in which the speaker notes that "your real target hid behind me."
Sandie Byrne analyzed the poem "Suttee" as a rewriting of Southwell's Christmas poem "The Burning Babe" with this figure in place of the Christ child. In a poem addressed to this figure, the 25 year-old speaker claims to be "dumbfounded afresh by [his] ignorance of the simplest things" after buying a peach outside Charing Cross station. This figure is "gold-jacketed, solid silver, nickel-tipped" in a poem in which the speaker notes that "your real target hid behind me." This person, who is compared to a bullet in the poem "The Shot", has a Veronica Lake bang in a poem that describes the author's first glimpse of a picture of this woman and her fellow "Fulbright Scholars" at Cambridge. The poem "The Blue Flannel Suit" describes the clothes this woman wore on her first day back teaching at Smith College, her alma mater. For 10 points, name this addressee of Ted Hughes' book Birthday Letters.
Sandie Byrne analyzed the poem "Suttee" as a rewriting of Southwell's Christmas poem "The Burning Babe" with this figure in place of the Christ child.
Sylvia Plath