"Mushrooms" by Sylvia Plath

What kinds of people can mushrooms represent? See the comparisons made by Sylvia Plath in her poem.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 12 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: My Papa's Waltz, in just-, The Last Word, Mushrooms, I Remember, Invisible Man, Four Skinny Trees, Dirty Work, On Seeing England for the First Time, Speaking with Hands, The White Man's Burden, The Poor Man's Burden, Shooting an Elephant, Lindo Jong: Double Face, Stranger in the Village
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  1. discreet
    marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint
    Overnight, very
    Whitely, discreetly,
    Very quietly
  2. loam
    a rich soil consisting of sand, clay and organic materials
    Our toes, our noses
    Take hold on the loam
  3. acquire
    come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
    Acquire the air
  4. betray
    give away information about somebody
    Nobody sees us,
    Stops us, betrays us;
    The small grains make room.
  5. insist
    be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge
    Soft fists insist on
    Heaving the needles,
    The leafy bedding,
    Even the paving.
  6. cranny
    a small opening or crevice
    Our hammers, our rams,
    Earless and eyeless,
    Perfectly voiceless,
    Widen the crannies,
    Shoulder through holes.
  7. bland
    lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
    We
    Diet on water,
    On crumbs of shadow,
    Bland-mannered, asking
    Little or nothing.
  8. meek
    humble in spirit or manner
    We are shelves, we are
    Tables, we are meek
  9. edible
    suitable for use as food
    We are edible.
  10. inherit
    receive from a predecessor
    We shall by morning
    Inherit the earth.
Created on Wed Mar 04 10:22:09 EST 2015 (updated Thu Oct 12 14:58:48 EDT 2017)

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