Matthew Goldberg
ENGL 280
The Journey To Life And Death Sylvia Plath’s “BlackBerrying,” uses imagery and personification to bring the reader into the life of the speaker. Plath committed suicide at age 30, with these poems to show how much life you can live in a short period of time. In this three stanza poem Plath uses seven different colors which allows each reader to create their own image in their head. The poem is straight forward, meaning it is read consecutively. This also illustrates an image in the reader’s head, by flowing the poem parallel to the speaker’s walk down this road. With no other knowledge, the reader portrays this women to be Sylvia Plath, walking down this lonely road. With no one around to interact with on this walk, Plath uses personification with the black berry’s to interact with the speaker. Life and death is a major theme in …show more content…
This is made to believe that there is hope of moving towards the light and life. As you look past this you notice how everything is portrayed as evil or death. For example, in the sky there are flocks of black choughs as bits of burnt paper are blown through the sky. Looking further into detail about these choughs, Plath uses imagery when she states the choughs are in black. She could have just said the black birds, but saying in black is relaying a different message, which is death, mourning, and a funeral. Using imagery to shine light on the major theme or life and death is prominent in this stanza. “I come to one bush of berries so ripe it is a bush of flies.” (Line 15) This line basically shows how you can have two different viewpoints on the situation and that this journey is going to end up in two different options. Once again, Plath gives the reader light while talking about heaven in line 19. This journey is filled with the theme of life and death physically as well as this them is shown
ENGL 280
The Journey To Life And Death Sylvia Plath’s “BlackBerrying,” uses imagery and personification to bring the reader into the life of the speaker. Plath committed suicide at age 30, with these poems to show how much life you can live in a short period of time. In this three stanza poem Plath uses seven different colors which allows each reader to create their own image in their head. The poem is straight forward, meaning it is read consecutively. This also illustrates an image in the reader’s head, by flowing the poem parallel to the speaker’s walk down this road. With no other knowledge, the reader portrays this women to be Sylvia Plath, walking down this lonely road. With no one around to interact with on this walk, Plath uses personification with the black berry’s to interact with the speaker. Life and death is a major theme in …show more content…
This is made to believe that there is hope of moving towards the light and life. As you look past this you notice how everything is portrayed as evil or death. For example, in the sky there are flocks of black choughs as bits of burnt paper are blown through the sky. Looking further into detail about these choughs, Plath uses imagery when she states the choughs are in black. She could have just said the black birds, but saying in black is relaying a different message, which is death, mourning, and a funeral. Using imagery to shine light on the major theme or life and death is prominent in this stanza. “I come to one bush of berries so ripe it is a bush of flies.” (Line 15) This line basically shows how you can have two different viewpoints on the situation and that this journey is going to end up in two different options. Once again, Plath gives the reader light while talking about heaven in line 19. This journey is filled with the theme of life and death physically as well as this them is shown