Sylvia Plath Childless Woman Analysis

The poet Sylvia Plath, is known for darker more depressing poetry style and free-verse writing technique. But, like plenty of other poets she uses figurative language. Metaphors is just one of the many types of figurative language. A metaphor is a figure of speech that identifies something as the same as some unrelated person/place/thing for verbal effect, thus stressing the similarities between the two. Many poets and authors use metaphors and also symbolism in their writing. In her work, Plath uses metaphors and symbolism.
For example, in the poem “Tulips” written by Sylvia Plath she portrays a harsh perspective to a normally joyful evet, Plath talks of staying in a hospital and forced to stay there because of the guilt Plath feels coming from her family. Initially, the poem “Tulips” is about Plath giving birth to her second offspring and how, for Plath, the childbirth felt as if going through hell. The
Plath uses nature metaphors to compare to the miscarriage. For instance, the tree is a metaphor for Plath and the moon would be the fetus. The tree “has nowhere to go” (Stanza 1 line 3) Meaning she now experiences loss with losing her child, and does not know how to handle the situation. “My landscape is a hand with no lines” (stanza 2 line 1) this means Plath lost her identity after the loss of her child. She now became an incomplete person because she lost a fetus she grew inside herself. “Myself the rose you acheive--- This body, This ivory” (stanza 3) In this sentence, “this body” is detached from “the rose you achieve” the baby had left her and accomplished it, Plath is jealous of the child. She wishes to have also left with the unborn or even have her life taken instead of the babies. Because of the use of the word achieve, because she before has failed to kill