The Morning Song Sylvia Plath Analysis

Poems are very complex and sometimes hard to understand at first. Some may even have more than one meaning or maybe not any true meaning at all. The best way to figure out poems is to reread them and during your second time rereading the poem, slowly read through it and jot down some notes or what you picture when you read a certain line or lines. What this is called is analyzing. When you do this you look for the deeper meaning and understanding of a poem. The poem I am going to analyze is called “The Morning Song” by Sylvia Plath. Now I do not know if this poem is about Sylvia Plath or about someone she knew. Though when you read through this the first time you understand that this poem is about a mother and a child. The thing you do not truly understand in this poem is the connection between the mother and the child.

The first stanza of the poem may confuse you when you know she is talking about a baby. When she says “Love sets you going like a fat gold watch.” you picture some meaning behind these words. They could mean that love for a child is what set them going and that they wanted a baby. Another meaning of that line is that they were stating about the creation of the baby and the …show more content…
There are two groups of imagery in this poem: nature imagery and animal imagery. For nature, she had some clue words, which are "elements", "cloud', "roses", and "seas. When she was talking about the roses she stated "flat pink roses." When Sylvia speaks this, she wants you to imagine pink roses which is part of nature. The clue words for the animal imagery is "moth", "cow", and "cat". The world cat came from the line "Your mouth opens clean as a cat's." When she states this you start to picture a cat open his mouth. There are many others like this, but when you read this and see another imagery's like this you start to connect that Sylvia has a thing for nature and