Thursday, April 2, 2015

Metaphors by Sylvia Plath

Sonnet: A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Metaphor:  A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

This poem is a sonnet because it portraits almost all of the characteristics of a sonnet, although it is not fourteen lines long. However, it makes up for that in the many metaphors that are portrayed in the poem, nearly every word is a metaphor for something. The poem has a total number of fourteen metaphors, "a melon strolling on two tendrils," for instance which depicts that pregnancy is not heartening.



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