morning song-sylvia plath

morning song-sylvia plath

1. Plaths new-born child

   • Feels detached and seperated from her child
     • ''Love set you going like a fat gold watch''
       • Unusual but witty comparison,
         • The child is valuable and precious but this is an odd simile

2. Unusual and striking imagery

   • The child is compared to a 'new statue'

3. Parents confusion and disengagement

   • we ''stand round blankly as walls''

4. Plath compares their relationship to that of a cloud and the rain it has shed

   • shows her inability to feel a natural maternal bond
     • so much like ''a cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow effacement at the winds hand''
       • interesting metaphor

5. loss and seperation moves to amaze and wonderment

   • plaths 'stumble' from bed shows her concern
     • Beautiful image of the childs 'moth breath' flickering among the flat pink roses
       • Plath is in complete wonderment and amaze of the childs mouth ''opening as clean as a cats''
       • Its faint and gentle breath evokes the childs vulnerability , it sounds like a 'far sea' to the poet , very effective image

6. The childs vulnerability makes them feel insecure ''your nakedness shadows our safety''

7. Intese personal poem

   • vividly realistic
     • THEMES
       • motherhood
       • Mental anguish

8. poem ends on a very positive image of the childs notes 'rising like balloons''

9. Personification-the window 'swallows'' the stars as the child swallows the mothers milk