Metaphors

Let us consider the poem as a whole before we move on to focus on the particular line that you have highlighted. This poem is used as a vehicle for Plath to express the mixed emotions she has at...

I would say that the speaker of this poem has a negative attitude toward her pregnancy. Typically, a woman who calls herself, or is called, an "elephant" or is said to be as big as a "house" is...

In this excellent poem by Sylvia Plath, her own experience of pregnancy and her feelings about it through the use of a series of metaphors that are commonly used as the basis to talk about...

In reading this poem, I tend to follow the prompt in the opening line and enjoy Sylvia Plath's poem "Metaphors" as a riddle of sorts. I think that reading the poem in this way may very well help...

The title, "Metaphors," directly states the poem's purpose: to provide a series of metaphors. The first line notes that these metaphors comprise a riddle; the solution is to derive what the...

Ambivalence is the word which describes Sylvia Plath’s attitude toward her pregnancy in “Metaphors.” It is a riddle poem with the answer equally a pregnant woman. The reader is challenged to find...

Famously this poem talks about Plath's own feelings when she was pregnant, and she uses a series of metaphors to describe herself. However, within these descriptions we can see her own feelings...

"Metaphors" by Sylvia Plath is a 9 x 9 poem (9 syllables; 9 lines) spoken by a pregnant speaker (hence the 9 months). The speaker uses a barrage of metaphors all of which compare a host-mother to...