Metaphors By Sylvia Plath Figurative Language

To interpret poetry a reader must have a creative imagination and great depth of understanding. Poetry can be interpreted and understood differently to each reader. A reader can distinguish different meanings and main points from each poem. The author inserts clues that help the reader to better understand the meaning of the poem by using some of the more important techniques such as imagery, and figurative language.
The Poem “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath, provides hints toward a hidden meaning behind the words. Pregnancy is the hidden message given by this poem. The poem uses figurative language to portray the months of pregnancy, and her growing belly. Plath uses metaphors to say a specific thing without calling it by name. The first metaphor used in this poem sets the pace of solving the equation. Then moves on to talk about the elephant which a lot of women know “the elephant in the room” phrase is talking about a woman being pregnant. It’s a large animal that cannot be hidden away very easily and the same applies to a woman's pregnant belly. This poem revolves around size and that there's no going back, she's too far invested now.
A different angle is shown with the poem “I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain” by Emily Dickinson. Emily is talking about a whole funeral procession going on within the mind …show more content…
These metaphors set up a perfect vision by using imagery to lay out the setting. Some of the metaphors include words like “it” to describe other things like snow and sifts. Emily uses this same metaphor throughout the poem in place of other words. By doing this it urges the reader to use their imagination and form their own vision of the setting of the poem. The line “ It powders all of the Wood. It fills with Alabaster Wool” represents the snow falling and covering the ground with a white blanket of snow (Dickinson