Morning Song Essay, Research Paper

Morning song

by Sylvia Plath is one of a greatest poet of American history, her ” Morning song” is one of the poem she wrote when she gave birth a first child. It show the welcome child coming to life, as the her lovely child will help her eliminate a lonely life.

Love set you going like a fat gold watch.

The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry

Took its place among the elements

The new coming baby is very excited as a child cry, the sound of live and hope, she had been suffer a lonely since a child hood, her dad died when she was eight year old, so lonely is a big problem for her to afraid .

Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.

In a drafty museum, your nakedness

Shadows our safety, we stand round blankly as walls.

Her comment on motherhood in “Morning Song,” tells of her disassociation with it. “I’m no more your mother/Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow/ Effacement at the wind’s hand.” This bizarre comparison is an exaggerated distortion of truth. She is in some way trying to convince herself that nothing is connected; motherhood is not a biologically natural thing, but something that we have constructed. I think she understands to some degree the complexity or at least the effects of the problem of the perceived identity of women and the desired identity. The isolation that takes hold in her poetry is simply a manifestation of her confusion.