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Sylvia Plath, ''New statue, MIRROR - Coggle Diagram
Sylvia Plath
Morning Song
''Love set you going like a fat gold watch''
Watch=baby, complex mechanism
Needs time to adjust
Certain that the child was conceived with love (positive affirmation)
'fat'- baby's size/ its lumbersomeness
'gold' refers to its preciousness
''The second Sex''- Simone De Beauvoir states that a baby is either a jewel or a hindrance, but Plath suggests it can be both
'',and your bald cry''
shifts to the birth of baby
''took its place among the elemants''
her child is now seperate, an individual in the world (disconnect)
Verse 6
''Windows square whitens and swallows its dull stars'' (Hope)
verse 2: reaction to birth
'' your nakedness''
Child is vulnerable ( desire to protect/nurture)
Verse 4:First night with : child
''moths breath''
delicate and soft baby ( adoration)
''I wake to listen''
highly aware/ waiting for baby to awaken/ highly attentive to her needs
''cow heavy''
Humour- she 'stumbles' to be milked by her baby
''Victorian Nightgown
Doing what every mother has done
MOTHERHOOD
Child
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'' a far sea''
''New statue
metaphor
Sense of distance between parents and child (Disconnect)
Conflicting emotions
MIRROR
personofication
''silver'' ''four cornered'' '' hangs on a wall''
reveals a lot about itself
'' meditates on the opposite wall''
''faces and darkness separate us''
developed feeling for the wall
'' part of my heart''
'' no precopnceptions''
''unmisted by love or dislike''
''whatever I see i swallow''
''Only Truthful'
aware that those around it could be disappointed by what they see looking back
its never blamed for the disappointment
''eye of a little god''
all powerful
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worshipped
''tears and an agitation of hands''
sense of loneliness and despair
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all seeing