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Essay Archive - Mother and Child In Sylvia Plath Poems
Mother and Child In Sylvia Plath Poems
Sylvia Plath: Consider how the poems dealing with Mother and Child convey a startling variety of responses
Although each of the poems in question (You’re, Morning Song, By Candlelight, Nick and the Candlestick and Mary’s Song) focuses on the relationship between mother and child, the emotions dealt with in each poem vary quite incredibly. Each poem appears differently on the page: You’re and By Candlelight are written in nine-line stanzas, the two poems having two and four respectively, while Morning song, Nick and the Candlestick and Mary....
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