Metaphors By Sylvia Plath
Conflicting Pregnancies Merriam Webster defines the word ‘poem’ as the “writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound and rhythm. There are countless amounts of poetry out there and over 50 styles of poems written by poets. Sylvia Plath’s poetry usually contains extended metaphors, figurative analogies and usually has violent imagery in between clear, precise diction. In the poem “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath, numerous metaphors reveal that women feel discouraged, restricted, and ambivalent about their pregnancies. Women feel discouraged when they are pregnant with their child because of their physical appearance. They
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Mentally, they are always thinking about their enormous, oversized physical image constantly because “this loaf’s big with its yeasty rising” (I. 5).This line explains that pregnant woman’s belly grows just like a load of bread rising in the oven. Emotionally, they have to slowly shift their focus on their careers, whether it being a poet to businesswomen, to become a mother and a housewife to care for the child. Caring for a child is not easy and it can be emotionally draining almost all the time. The child requires constant attention and some families expect the wife to give up their jobs in order to do that with no problem. Physically, they have “boarded the train there’s no getting off” (I. 9). Once they are pregnant, they are pregnant with their child. Her life has forever changed and she cannot go back to being a single person. Whilst being pregnant, they are unable to do daily activities without a struggle. Doing groceries or cooking causes them to feel fatigued and exhausted. It is very difficult to bend down to pick up something on the floor or to get their feet into their shoes because they have “eaten a bag of green apples” (I. 8) This is another metaphor that describes that their pregnant large bellies are quite round. Being pregnant can really drain women’s mental, emotion and physical
Mentally, they are always thinking about their enormous, oversized physical image constantly because “this loaf’s big with its yeasty rising” (I. 5).This line explains that pregnant woman’s belly grows just like a load of bread rising in the oven. Emotionally, they have to slowly shift their focus on their careers, whether it being a poet to businesswomen, to become a mother and a housewife to care for the child. Caring for a child is not easy and it can be emotionally draining almost all the time. The child requires constant attention and some families expect the wife to give up their jobs in order to do that with no problem. Physically, they have “boarded the train there’s no getting off” (I. 9). Once they are pregnant, they are pregnant with their child. Her life has forever changed and she cannot go back to being a single person. Whilst being pregnant, they are unable to do daily activities without a struggle. Doing groceries or cooking causes them to feel fatigued and exhausted. It is very difficult to bend down to pick up something on the floor or to get their feet into their shoes because they have “eaten a bag of green apples” (I. 8) This is another metaphor that describes that their pregnant large bellies are quite round. Being pregnant can really drain women’s mental, emotion and physical