"Child" by Sylvia Plath

"Child" (1963, confessional) Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing. I want to fill it with color and ducks, The zoo of the new Whose names you meditate --- April snowdrop, Indian pipe, Little Stalk without wrinkle, Pool in which images Should be grand and classical Not this troublous Wringing of hands, this dark Ceiling without a star.

Sylvia Plath was a confessional poetry writer, leading the shift to writing and publishing poetry of a more personal nature, as exemplified through her poem "Child." In it she writes takes on the persona of a doting mother, showing the reader her love for her children. Her desire to "fill [the child's clear eye] with color and ducks" shows her desire to provide all that she can for her children. However, the shift in her last stanza displays the hardships she was going through at the time, such as depression and separation from her husband. This poem, in fact, was written only two weeks before she committed suicide from carbon monoxide poisoning. "Child" gives the reader insight into the psyche of Plath with boundless love she has for her children accompanied with the the "troublous" times she was experiencing. 

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