Zusammenfassung der Ressource
morning song-sylvia plath
- Plaths new-born child
- Feels detached and seperated from her child
- ''Love set you going like a fat gold watch''
- Unusual but witty comparison,
- The child is valuable and precious but this is an odd simile
- Unusual and striking imagery
- The child is compared to a 'new statue'
- Parents confusion and disengagement
- we ''stand round blankly as walls''
- Plath compares their relationship to that of a cloud and the rain it has shed
- shows her inability to feel a natural maternal bond
- so much like ''a cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow effacement at the winds hand''
- interesting metaphor
- loss and seperation moves to amaze and wonderment
- plaths 'stumble' from bed shows her concern
- Beautiful image of the childs 'moth breath' flickering among the flat pink roses
- Plath is in complete wonderment and amaze of the childs mouth ''opening as clean as a cats''
- Its faint and gentle breath evokes the childs vulnerability , it sounds like a 'far sea' to the poet , very effective image
- The childs vulnerability makes them feel insecure ''your nakedness shadows our safety''
- Intese personal poem
- vividly realistic
- THEMES
- motherhood
- Mental anguish
- poem ends on a very positive image of the childs notes 'rising like balloons''
- Personification-the window 'swallows'' the stars as the child swallows the mothers milk