Admonitions (Poem) Summary

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Admonitions (Poem) Overview

“Admonitions” is an early villanelle by American poet Sylvia Plath. It was written in 1953, considered her “juvenalia period,” and originally published in her posthumous Collected Poems. It uses cultural, biblical, and folkloric motifs to examine themes of temptation, curiosity, and female agency. 

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