While the vast portion of student readers will give the poem a once-over and get to work, a genuine understanding and analysis takes a bit more time. ... The poem is chalked full of every metaphor you can possibly imagine. ... The poem comes to completion with the baby yearning to communicate. ... Analysis and Interpretation The metaphorical myriad that is Morning Song leaves much to be considered after reading. ... She displays this growth as the poem goes on. ...

• Word Count: 1571
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In this poem, Plath adopts a mocking tone to describe those who seek to commodify her suicide attempts. ... In the poem's final stanza, Plath again plays on a familiar allusion to explore the concept of individual liberation. ... In this free verse poem, Hughes seeks to directly access the aforementioned father figure of Otto Plath. In this case, he uses familiar images to provide a significant analysis of Plath's tendency in conflation of her oppressive father and her later husband. ... The poem describes the entangled images of Plath and Hughes created in Sylvia Plath's poetry...

• Word Count: 2183
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The poem "Mirror- is written from a mirror's perspective, which at first she describes it as being truthful and honest. In the poem it states "most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. ... With the beginning of the second stanza, the poem takes on a much darker tone, rather than the softer much more relaxed approach used in the first stanza. ... In this poem the mirror is straight forward to the old lady and it is cruel to her and makes her grief for her youth is now gone. ... This poem was written in 1961, just two years before Plath's suicide, which in this two year...

• Word Count: 1399
• Approx Pages: 6