Autobiographical Glimpses in Sylvia Plath's Poetry

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This paper discusses the imagery that is present in the poems of Sylvia Plath. It suggests that Sylvia Plath was a poet of many intense emotions and shows how her focus of emotional energy was expended mainly on anger and thought of death and suicide. The paper describes some of her more personal poems that deal directly with tangible aspects of her life.

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"Anger and death were not the only notions that occupied the poet's mind. They may have been the most prominent of thoughts but she did have other pleasing thoughts as well. "Morning Song" focuses on a baby's cry. Here we have powerful imagery that allow us to experience the poet's disconnect with her child when she says, "I'm no more your mother/Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow" (Plath Morning Song (7-8). While this poem in not necessarily anger, it is definitely not healthy in regards to a mother and her child. She does feel a bond with the baby like most mothers do. Her distance is shocking but not disturbing considering what we already know. In fact thee feelings may be what reinforced suicidal thoughts."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Plath, Sylvia. "Blackberrying." The Collected Poems. New York: Harper and Row Publishers. 1981.
• ---."Daddy." The Collected Poems. New York: Harper and Row Publishers. 1981.
• ---. Lady Lazarus." "Blackberrying." The Collected Poems. New York: Harper and Row Publishers. 1981.
• ---. "Mirror." The Collected Poems. New York: Harper and Row Publishers. 1981.
• ---. "Morning Song." "Blackberrying." The Collected Poems. New York: Harper and Row Publishers. 1981.

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