Jennifer Crumpler Tammy Frailly ENG 233 IN1 20 November 2013 Sylvia Plaths Poetry In Plaths poetry she

expresses her life with very calm settle moments and then a burst of angry that no one understands but herself. Sylvia Plath only knows how to get the release she needs in her poems and she can imagine things in a different and strange way. As the narrator describes her as seizing mythic power, the Plath of the poems transmute the domestic and the ordinary into the hallucinatory, the utterly strange. There is no doubt she is a very traumatic and dramatic lady all at the same time. With Plaths suicidal thoughts and actions there are so many messaged in her poetry that you cannot even imagine, if she was even normal. But, she had an education from Cambridge and a professional poet; she had been to Boston University for poetry seminars when she meets her good friends Lowell and Sexton. She was best known for her two published collections-The Colossus and other poems and the Ariel In 1982 she won a post humus Pulitzer Prize for the collected poems. She would not have had a friend that admired her like Lowell did if she was not as he put it In these poemsSylvia Plath becomes herself, becomes something imaginary, newly, wildly, and subtly created-one of those super-real, hypnotic great classical heroines. Her friend even mentions, she is a real deal in their time. Plath is a very disturbed young lady but they find many dreadful experiences in her poetry. In the poem Morning Song explains Sylvia Plaths love for her children. She had her first child in 1960 and her second child in 1962. She could attest to the way a midwife would slap a baby on the bottom to get the baby to cry or in other words start to breath. The midwife

slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry (2). This poem demonstrates a lot of her abilities to have a wide range of emotion you feel her every sense of natural surround what she was feeling for her children, line 5 said In a drafty museum, your nakedness. You get this draft from being in an open gown and you feel as the room is like a museum, everyone watching and you are naked. But, Plath never complains about it, she is just expressing her feels about it. Even though Sylvia is expressing her motherhood, the next several lines are very disturbing because it is as Plath does not want to be the babys mother. Im no more your mother/Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow/Effacement at the winds hand. (Plath 7-9). Plath is saying she is not only the mother but for a brief moment like the clouds are reflecting the wind that is to be very humble by it. The other lines are very simple from the moth breath where as the clean as a cats relating to the mouth, gives the example of the baby being clean and staying new. On the last three lines of the poem is so utterly strange. Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try /Your handful of notes;/The clear vowels rise like balloons (Plath 16-18). The interpretation is the babys blanket so white and swallow its a dull star, maybe not as bright as a star but close. You have notes for the preparing of this newborn and now they are floating away. It is not on paper or notes that can prepare you to be a mother. You take one day at a time and not rush things because you will learn something new every day.

In another poem by Sylvia Plath is the Ariel is the thoughts of the horse she rode before she went to Cambridge. The interpretation is opposite of the Morning Song has it take you to the very deep emotion of her animal. Line 1 Stasis in darkness. She has the emotionless state which is her horse riding in the dark. The imaginary here about her horse is very breath-taking. How can Plath have so much emotion for her horse and not herself? She falls off the horses stirrups and she finishes riding the horse around its neck for a little while and she did not even say anything about the pain. And then naming the horse Ariel from the God name Lion of God which is from the line 4 Gods lioness which is from the direct name Jewish or Hebrew. Also, another symbolic name is Ariel, which is the name Jerusalem. As we have seen many poems written with the hut of the names, Jewish or Judaism. As Plath of the poems transmute the domestic, which you read one poem and another and then you cannot phantom these two were written by the same poet. One poem gives the darkness hour and at any moment she would lose the winning battle and would get her dream. Plaths poetry was her cry for help but was she really wanting the help and could she be helped? The genetics are so strong in one that is as disturbed as she was but maybe she was doomed from the beginning.

Work Cited Plath, Sylvia. Mornig Song. The Norton Anthology of American Literature 8th ed, Vol. E. Ed. Nina Baym, and Robert S. Levine. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2012. 629-631. Print.