child (plath)

Question 1

depicts what

Answer 1

•speakers love and all the beautiful things she hopes for her child’s future

Question 2

imaginez her child to be..

Answer 2

•the most “beautiful thing” with a beautiful “clear eye” not polluted by the outside world

Question 3

what does irregular rhyme scheme show

Answer 3

•shoes poets sense of disorder within

Question 4

contrast with first 3 stanzas and 4th stanza

Answer 4

•first three stanza depicts the love the poet has for her child, while 4th stanza reveals the personal troubles and anxieties she has, ending the poem in an unhappy tone

Question 5

contrast between happy childhood and unhappy adulthood

Answer 5

•”color and ducks” and “this troublous / Wringing of hands”

Question 6

1st stanza present image of infant taking in world around them. she mentions new zoo she’d like to take child to

Answer 6

•word “zoo” fills readers mind with various animals as she and her child go around the zoo

Question 7

contrasting images in “wrinkle” and “classical”

Answer 7

•classical meaning to agree well
•wrinkle meaning to age poorly

Question 8

“Pool in which images / Should be grand and classical”

Answer 8

•child’s eye is the pool that reflects what it sees
•expresses hope for filling her child’s life with exemplary things

Question 9

“Ceiling without a star”

Answer 9

•normal stars are in the vast, limitless sky however the word “Ceiling” shows the poets limitation

Question 10

this closed situation contrasts with

Answer 10

•the words of her child that are splendid to behold, filled with variety & vast and open like a “zoo”