Compare And Contrast The Way Plath Presents The Speaker’s Fears In Thre

Comp ar And Contrast The Way Plath Presents The Speakers Fears In ThreeOf The Poems That You Have StudiedSylvia Plath writes poems that are thoughtful and intriguing. Theyhave clever and subtle suggestions that leave her poems open forinterpretation by the reader. Her poems mainly have themes with anyan odd or disturbing nature. The three poems I have chosen to compareand contrast are Mirror, Bluebeard and The Arrival of The BeeBox.In the three poems there are several different moods that are shownthroughout. In Bluebeard the speaker remains in control all thetime, she is defiant and makes her own choices in stating, I am direct back the key she is rejecting him and it is always heroption whether or not to. However throughout Bluebeard the speakerstone remains constant and never changes conflicting in The Arrival of TheBee Box in which her disposition changes constantly. At the beginningof the poem the poem begins with the speaker describing the box calmlyI ordered this, jazzy woo d box this creates a pleasant image eventhough it is a box of maniacs. The box is full of something verydangerous. If the box were to be assailable then the speaker would beunleashing hundreds of bees and yet she describes the box as beingsomething pleasant instead of ominous and foreboding. Then as the poemprogresses the speaker becomes ghost and fascinated with the boxand is unable to leave it, absorbed by the power that she possessesover the bees. Its like a Roman mob, could be referring to the factthat the emperor moth in ancient Rome had complete control over the livesof the many people and she now could similarly let all the bees, die,I need die hard them nothing, I am the owner.... ...oughts in the poems, it is definitiveand final. The many stanzas allow Sylvia Plath to change the speakersmood and thoughts in each stanza. This, along with the language applywhich is awkward and difficult to read, has the desired effect ofreflecting her feelings of confusion. She seems to be trapped betweenher feelings of obsession and fear of the box she knows she can notopen. This is similar to the myth of Pandoras Box where the womanknows she cant open the box as there is danger in it and yet issomehow strangely drawn to itIn general Sylvia Plath is successful in her endeavour to portray thefears of others in her poems. She is very skilful at writing aboutreal feeling and involving her life in her poems to help incorporatereal life situations into them. And by involving her fears into thepoems this helps many people to relate to them.