You’re begins with the persona (whom we can assume to be an expectant mother) talking to her foetus, and she believes that it is enjoying itself: “You’re/ Clownlike, happiest on your hands”. This could be a reflection of her own sentiments, implying that the mother to be is also contented. She seems sure that the baby will be ready to cope with any eventuality (“Gilled like a fish”) without needing to rely on others for support (“Wrapped up in yourself like a spool”...
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This sense of comfort is picked up again later, in both By Candlelight (“Balled hedgehog,” “I rock you like a boat”,) and Nick and the Candlestick (“wrap me, raggy shawls”.) It is emphasised by a feeling of enthusiasm and satisfaction: “Right, like a well-done sum.” The mother feels that what she is doing is right, and that she is enjoying it...
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Sylvia Plath You’re begins with the persona (whom we can assume to be an expectant mother) talking to her foetus, and she believes that it is enjoying itself: “You’re/ Clownlike, happiest on your hands”...	8 / 1984
Sylvia Plath "My final memories of the sea were violent ones." While in England she wrote poems that made her happy. "I idolized England." As Plath got closer to her suicide, her writing got darker and darker...	2 / 356
English Poetry In her junior year at Smith College, Plath made her first medically documented suicide attempt by crawling under her house and taking an overdose of sleeping pills...	1 / 194
Dear Daddy Sylvia Plath’s poem Daddy can be seen by today’s readers as a piece not only about the Resentment of a father but about the resentment of the way that she views society’s elders...	1 / 260
Mad Girl's Love Song Plath was found several days later by her brother and sent to a mental hospital. As Plath states in Chapter 20 of the Bell Jar, there was a bell jar, "with its stifling distortions," constantly hovering over her threatening to lower and enclose her...	2 / 511
Sylvia Plath Sylvia's poem "Last Words" was written in 1961, in the midst of her depression, as you can tell as you read through this almost disturbing piece. Most of her poems toward the end of her life were depressing and having to do with death...	1 / 164
Poetry Explication Of Sylvia Plath’S “Mirror” The moon reflects the sun and the mirror reflects everything. The mirror also tells us that it has no before thoughts of what happens. In the second and third lines the mirror tells us “Whatever I see I swallow immediately just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike...	4 / 934