"Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer." This quote by Dorothy Rowe reinforces how Plath's persona considers herself a prisoner of depression, but also a jailer to her children. Plath creates the persona of a consumed mother to argue nostalgically to a universal audience using implied metaphors, that mental instability can deprive an individual of life's greatest gifts, replacing them with a mental and emotional numbness. .
Plath conveys through the speaker, that mental instability can deprive an individual of the greatest moments in life. The title of this poem, "Child" represents a blissful ignorance, because children haven't yet been exposed to what the world is capable of. Children are completely oblivious to reality, because all they have ever known is curiosity and joy. However, in this poem, the speaker is always two steps behind this idea of pure happiness, and is worried that her ignorance may damage her children's chance at finding it themselves. Throughout the poem, the speaker explains to her children the concept of happiness, even though she doesn't know how to capture it herself or give it to her children. "Should be grand and classical/ Not this troublous/ Wringing of hands, this dark/ Ceiling without a star" (9-12). This quote spoken by the speaker to the reader shows the effects that depression has on one's life. The speaker knows that life should be "grand" and "classical", but is unable to bring those things into her own life due to her current state of mind. However, the speaker is worried that her own mental state will be absorbed into her children. "Pool in which images/ Should be grand and classical." Line 8 & 9. This quote spoken by the speaker to the reader conveys the impact that the speaker has on her children. Pools are a reflection of their surrounding images, therefore, the speaker does not want her children to be reflected back as an image as herself.
Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts. ... On April 1, 1960, Sylvia gave birth to her first child Frieda Rebecca. ... She still wanted another child. On January 17, 1962, She gave birth to her second child Nicholas Farrar. ... Plath, or if she passed away. ...
Sylvia Plath, a complex poet, a complex mind. The life of Sylvia Plath began on October 27, 1932 and was abruptly ended on February 11, 1963. ... She was only a child and lacked the parental guidance that a child needs to understand the complexities of death (Bloom 89). ... Fertility and bareness are contrasted around the same time when Plath was trying to conceive her first child. ... Sylvia Plath is most definitely not exempt from this stereotype. ...
Daddy Sylvia Plath 1932-1963 Sylvia Plath wrote "Daddy" just four months before her death by suicide in February 1963. ... (Kehoe, John) Daddy is a morbid, dark, disturbing poem seemingly narrated by an angry child/adolescent girl. ... In February 1963, Sylvia Plath chose death over life. ... New York, Chelsea House Publishers, 1989 Kehoe, John: Young, Talented, and Doomed: The Life of Sylvia Plath. ... Revising Life: Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems. ...
But those who are able to accomplish the metaphor in the way that Sylvia Plath does are few and far between. ... Surface-Level Reading The poem, Morning Song, comes from the pages of one of Sylvia Plath's most famous books entitled, Ariel. ... Although the reader does not know it yet, Plath has compared the child to a watch. ... The poem Morning Song, written by Sylvia Plath, employs varying metaphors and imagery to communicate a hesitant mother's growth of love and acceptance for her newfound relationship with her child. ... Morning Sun is a refreshing change of scenery for reader...
Sylvia Plath was a great American poet gaining her fame and recognition in the twentieth century, after her death. ... Sylvia Plath uses images of the holocaust and Jews to identify herself, and you can see how she associates the Nazi and the Germans as the powerful/authoritative male figures that replace her father. ... That's why in the movie "Sylvia", Plath's mother tells Ted that Sylvia loves him because she fears him, "I think you've frighten her, that's why she likes you". ... Finally, the confessional poet Sylvia Plath transcribed her experiences into poetry; her cre...
A Haunting Plath American poets are "dime a dozen", but one such as Sylvia Plath are hard to come by. ... Sylvia Plath led and interesting childhood and teenage years, and put an abrupt end to her live in 1963. Sylvia Plath led an interesting life; especially during her years as a child and a teenager. ... Sylvia had written a note for someone to call the doctor (13). ... Sylvia once wrote, "Dying is an art, like everything else. ...
My viewpoints are: involvement, affection and influence are always the three keys to a father-child relationship. Fathers play an important role in a child's development from birth through adulthood. ... In the poem "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath, we encounter a woman of mixed feelings because she didn't feel loved or affectionate by her father. ... In the first stanza, Sylvia Plath refer to herself as a foot when and her father a shoe "you do not anymore, black shoe in which I have lived like a foot.... Plath is still pained by these men, and cannot completely go on being a...
Sylvia Plath parallels her own life in the poem, "Daddy"". ... This disorder causes a child to be extremely fond of one parent and can cause personality complications in the future if not resolved. ... All young girls are expected to love their fathers, but Sylvia Plath was 'in love' with her father. ... (Plath l. 80, 353). ... (Plath l. 65, 352). ...
Tulips In the poem "Tulips", by Sylvia Plath, there is a woman that is placed in the hospital for a reason that is unknown to the reader. ... I later learned that Sylvia Plath wrote this poem after she went through a miscarriage. ... She does not want to see her family because she is afraid that she let them down by losing their child. Generally people bring you flowers or some sort of gift after you have a child, so this is why the tulips are also depressing to her. ...
Sylvia Plath's poem "Tulips" is an interplay between the need for peace and an ascent to wellness. ... "Tulips," also addresses the political climate of the time when Plath wrote this poem. ... In can certainly be said that when Plath had pen in hand, she was both a woman and writer ahead of her time. ... She wants to lose her baggage and obligations of her life: her husband and child (Line 18). ... Plath's poem contains end-stop lines and enjambments. ...
