Medusa Sylvia Plath

‘Medusa’ (originally had ‘Mum’ in the title) focuses on the relationship with the persona’s mother. It can be seen as a companion poem to ‘Daddy’ - written shortly before - and explores a similar theme – freeing the self from the (powerful, smothering) parent.

|Sylvia Plath - Medusa |
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|Off that landspit of stony mouth-plugs, |
|Eyes rolled by white sticks, |
|Ears cupping the sea's incoherences, |
|You house your unnerving head -- God-ball, |
|Lens of mercies, |
|Your stooges |
|Plying their wild cells in my keel's shadow,