Summary Of Trash By Sylvia Plath

Altogether, based on the analysis of the decaying body metaphor we came to the conclusion that the body was in fact a metaphor for the speaker's soul. We’ve all had an experience with death large or small, whether it was actually losing someone close to you, someone distant, someone you’ve never known or perhaps your experience was as distant as sitting on your couch and hearing something on the news. Whichever it is, death is nothing new, it’s something that is unavoidable and therefore something we should think about at some point during our lives. Lives are for the living, or so we thought. Today 5 percent of the world population suffer from depression, one symptom of depression is thought to be apathy. Similarly, the speaker relates to
Her comparison to trash, though short, is meant to show her feelings of worthlessness. Though trash is mentioned once in the 8th stanza, we can see multiple times where her self worth seems fairly low. “What a trash/ To annihilate each decade,” the speaker says. She not only sees herself as too invaluable to live but even quite invaluable that it is a waste of time to attempt to kill herself. Unlike the her other metaphors this one seems to be less extreme, but this doesn’t mean that they can’t be equally as effective. Sometimes a smaller more universal comparison is
Trash can be many things whether it is what is discarded after a meal or the broken pieces of an object once very valuable. Trash can be anything considered worthless and thanks to built in obsolescence most everything at some point becomes trash. Therefore, Sylvia Plath's usage of the metaphor of trash makes the speaker relatable to the reader. We often fear becoming useless and obsolete, for if we serve no purpose we no longer have a purpose. When people become “useless” and in our society that happens due to old age or disease, we do our best to remove these people from the equation. We place our grandparents in nursing homes, adults with mental health needs in group homes and we send troubled youth to military schools. Thus, we fear becoming burdens to society so we do our best to make sure we are in any way useful, we go to school, and learn to do things other cannot so that we will be need more importantly so that we cannot be discarded. When the speaker compares herself to trash, the audience is able to relate maybe not directly, because not everyone feels like trash, but at some point or another the audience has fought against becoming the very thing they