You Re And Metaphors Sylvia Plath Analysis

‘You’re’ and ‘Metaphors’ are the poems written by the poet, Sylvia Plath in her unique writing style. Throughout the poems, she conveyed her perspectives on life by linking her experiences and opinions. Her poems are not all about the meaning of the life from her perspective, but it also depicts something furthermore important than what we think and by writing countless of poems, it was her way to seek for something she lacked in her life. In order to do so, various language techniques were employed to convey the ideas. Furthermore, Plath’s main idea; the meaning of being an ideal ‘woman’ was also convinced throughout the poems.

Throughout the two poems she addressed her lifetime stories towards the audiences, as well as her opinions about

In this poem, she is totally fixated to herself. She barely showed us her feeling towards a fetus like she did in the other poem. In this poem she conveys an idea of the ‘woman’ during pregnancy is a burden. The use of metaphorical language has an effect on us to convince her idea as well as to visualize the image of a ‘woman’ struggling to give a birth to a big heavy baby. Plath started her first line with ‘I’m a riddle in nine syllables,’ the use of first person pronoun at the very beginning of the line allows us to access to a ‘woman’ whose experiencing the pregnancy and in ‘Metaphors’ a ‘woman’ whose experiencing a pregnancy is about herself. The start off of this poem is ironic as she says ‘I’m a riddle in nine syllables,’ with lighthearted and seems to be like she was thinking of becoming pregnant is just as easy as but from the second line of first stanza, it turns out that she started to lose her confidence in being pregnant as she describes her as ‘An elephant, a ponderous house’ as her belly got bigger and rounder. The employment of metaphor in line two have an effect on depicting a pregnant woman feeling large and also as if she is providing a big house for a big baby which we can also imagine the pain from the use of ‘…a ponderous’ as her belly gets bigger it causes pain by the stretch of it and the heaviness of a baby causes a back

It also formed an image of Plath and we can image her as a small woman, fragile as if she is about to fall over with big belly like ‘a melon’ with just two thin legs like ‘tendrils.’ But with those two tendrils, she is standing strong and keeping her balance just like tendrils holding a big, heavy melon, which looks weak but strong enough to hold on to. This line indicates that Plath desire for having a baby is strong as the tendrils and it also sum up that she has a strong will and heart which cannot be bent with just having a heavy weight on her. The tendrils a symbol of a ‘woman’ in this line as the appearance of tendrils looks weak like a woman but keep the melon at the place. It is just like a woman having a big baby and endures the burden. Thus, suggests that ‘women’ are stronger and tougher than the men as we don’t give up on this painful and stressful experience to give a birth. The level of her stress climaxed in line seven, ‘I’m a means, a stage, a cow in calf’. Plath had made us assure that she is the main person in this whole poem as she utilized first person pronoun ‘I’m’ and ‘means’ stating that she is an important subject and she had completely shifted her focus on herself unlike in ‘You’re’ where she jumped