Title Analysis: Plath herself never had a facelift, but she is taking on the persona of someone who has had one.
Content: The first stanza is a narrative of the first surgical procedure the character had, which was a bad experience. The second stanza is a comparison of the facelift procedure and the other procedure; the facelift was a much better experience for the character. The third stanza discusses the recovery period of the character, and how her friends do not know she had the facelift done. It also contains a flashback to when the character was twenty years old with her first husband. The last stanza describes how the character no longer looks like an old lady, and has a tone of disgust towards the old face.
Analysis: Time is a huge motif in this poem; I believe that Plath is trying to say that as hard as this character is trying to feel young again, she never truly will be that twenty year old again. While this face lift makes the character feel good in the present, she has not truly reverted her age.
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