-Metaphors- Silvia Plath
This poem was a very interesting one because it is made in a clever way that makes the poem more complex. After I read it I noticed that not only was there a lot of metaphors in the poem itself, but that each line in the poem was nine syllables. As it says in the first line "I'm a riddle in nine syllables" it reflects the structure of her whole poem as well. Another thing that I noticed was that the entire poem was exactly nine lines long, I doubt that it was a coincidence. That number nine made me wonder about its significance in this poem and my thoughts came to the conclusion that this woman wrote the poem about a pregnancy. Due to the fact that pregnancies are typically 9 months long. Another big clue is when she says, "I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf." what I got out of it was that she was just a stage in pregnacy which woman go through until labor. The calf is the baby of a cow so that made that idea of motherhood click in my head. The last sentence of the poem," Boarded the train there's no getting off." also gave it away because once a woman becomes pregnant, there is no turning back. It isfact that it is the point of no return but in my perspective she does not embrace the pregnacy. It made me think of a quote said by plato, a feminist critic, that "Plato thanks the gods for two blessings: that he had not been born a slave and that he had not been born a woman."
Plato (c. 427-c. 347 B.C.E.)
This quote makes it seem like it is a pity to be born a woman, that it is possibly the next worse position to be in next to a slave. It is wrong to think that way but it can apply to this poem because a woman is making it seem like it is a shame to be in a situation of pregnancy and it can be viewed in a positive sort of way in the point of view of a feminist critic.
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