“Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath is an emotional poem that begins as a mysterious riddle to the reader. Each line in the poem gives a few hints at the significance of the poem with interesting metaphors. Although, the reader may need to re-read the poem a few times to apprehend the meaning. All of the different use metaphor and use of form imply that the speaker of the poem is a woman who is in the last few months of her pregnancy. The dark tone of this poem also implies the woman’s pregnancy may not have been wanted and her remorseful feelings towards her situation. All of these elements create an insightful look into the speaker’s mind in an interesting and thoughtful way. This may make the reader wonder if this how all pregnant women may feel at one point during their pregnancy. In “Metaphors” Sylvia Plath uses regretful tone, thought-provoking metaphor, and unique form to indicate a woman’s true feelings and emotional state during pregnancy. …show more content…
In the line the woman feels like a cow in calf which may mean she feels like a cow who is breeding and is only praised for having her calf as opposed to being seen as more. This may be how many pregnant women feel throughout a pregnancy especially if their significant other favorites the unborn child over the woman. This poem deals with how a woman’s appearance or body may decline during pregnancy which can leave the woman feeling undesired, or even cause the woman to resent her unborn child for “ruining” her body. A line that gives off an incredibly regretful tone is “Boarded the train there’s no getting off” (9), the train in this situation is the child’s birth. After a child is born there is no going back because that child will depend on his or her mother for many more years. The woman feels helpless and feels as if she must endure this “ride” to end. It seems as if she did not expect to become pregnant or as if the woman did not realize how hard actually being pregnant would