An Ouija board is a “game board” that is used to communicate with spirits. Why would someone want to communicate with spirits? In Sylvia Plath’s case, to connect with her dead father and ultimately with herself. Sylvia wrote the poem, Ouija, after getting involved with dark magic through her husband. In the end, dark magic is what killed her, although her death is viewed as suicide. She was once innocent but then dark spirits and her husband changed her. Darkness was what Sylvia sought and due to that, she found it, but darkness was near Sylvia even before her marriage.
Born October 27th, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts, Sylvia’s life was not destined to be a fairytale. Her father, Otto Plath, had “an authoritative attitude” towards his children. …show more content…
The sky is personified within the poem because it is described as “wearing a blue, divine hauteur”. She also personifies the words of the old god by calling them a “talking whirlwind”. The poem can be analyzed as a personification of death. If the god of shades or the old god can see “those unborn, those undone” who are dead people, then he is similar to the Grim Reaper who is a personification of death. The devil is also closely related to death and so are demons. Both are a kind of spirit and could be seen with the use of an Ouija board and both are in The Bible which Sylvia refers to twice in the …show more content…
The old god’s words were like locusts “and left the cobs to rattle, bitten clean.” In The Bible locusts were a plague caused by God in order to show his wrath to Egyptians. The second reference is to God’s archangel, Gabriel. This angel is messenger for God and is well known for telling the Virgin Mary that she was to give birth to Jesus Crist. Sylvia uses these allusions to the bible because it is spiritual and does for some people what an Ouija board did for her. The bible is strongly connected to God as an Ouija board is strongly connected to dark spirits.
Sylvia rarely rhymes in this poem but when she does it is through assonance. She uses assonance in the middle of a line describing the souls of the dead. “Assemble with the frail paleness of moths”. She also uses alliteration and similes when describing the souls. The speaker asks the audience to “imagine their deep hunger, deep as the
Born October 27th, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts, Sylvia’s life was not destined to be a fairytale. Her father, Otto Plath, had “an authoritative attitude” towards his children. …show more content…
The sky is personified within the poem because it is described as “wearing a blue, divine hauteur”. She also personifies the words of the old god by calling them a “talking whirlwind”. The poem can be analyzed as a personification of death. If the god of shades or the old god can see “those unborn, those undone” who are dead people, then he is similar to the Grim Reaper who is a personification of death. The devil is also closely related to death and so are demons. Both are a kind of spirit and could be seen with the use of an Ouija board and both are in The Bible which Sylvia refers to twice in the …show more content…
The old god’s words were like locusts “and left the cobs to rattle, bitten clean.” In The Bible locusts were a plague caused by God in order to show his wrath to Egyptians. The second reference is to God’s archangel, Gabriel. This angel is messenger for God and is well known for telling the Virgin Mary that she was to give birth to Jesus Crist. Sylvia uses these allusions to the bible because it is spiritual and does for some people what an Ouija board did for her. The bible is strongly connected to God as an Ouija board is strongly connected to dark spirits.
Sylvia rarely rhymes in this poem but when she does it is through assonance. She uses assonance in the middle of a line describing the souls of the dead. “Assemble with the frail paleness of moths”. She also uses alliteration and similes when describing the souls. The speaker asks the audience to “imagine their deep hunger, deep as the