Metaphors

Sylvia Plath’s “ Metaphors”.

Line 1        I’m a riddle in nine syllables,

Line 2        An elephant, a ponderous house,

Line 3        A melon strolling on two tendrils.

Line 4        O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!

Line 5        This loaf’s big with its yeasty rising.

Line 6        Money’s new-minted in this fat purse.

Line 7        I’m a mean, a stage, a cow in calf.

Line 8        I’ve eaten a bag of green apples,

Line 9        Boarded the train there’s no getting off.

Reading the poem at first gives it a humorous twist seems as if the poet is poking fun at herself,but than while going through the poem I saw that it was more of a comparison of feelings and heaviness pregnancy brings into the life of women.Plath creates the narrator to be deeply distressed and very judgmental towards herself.Seems as if she is  Robbed of her significance, she stands unhappy and frightened of what is to come. Nevertheless, she understands that she has done this to herself. She has become jaded in a sense. 

I believe Sylvia Plath used the most simplistic form to describe the 9months of Pregnancy and the feelings and insecurities it comes with.She is very descriptive of herself image and how she feels the impact of being a mom will take away from her being her.The poem has an attitude that many  women may have about child birth. A woman steps down when she becomes with child. Becoming a mother is not only about having a child grow inside and be born; it is continued until the child is fully grown into a responsible adult.