Child - Sylvia Plath

Question 1

'’Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing’’

Answer 1

◍ love for her children
◍ her world is ugly except for her kids
◍ clear symbolising innocence and purity

Question 2

'’I want to fill it w. color and ducks/the zoo of the new’’

Answer 2

◍ World is fascinating and completely new
◍ Plath want to expose her children to the good of the world

Question 3

'’Indian pipe’’

Answer 3

◍ Refers to nicholas
◍ No chlorophyll
◍ feeds on rotting plants

Question 4

’’ Not this troublous/wringing of hands’’

Answer 4

◍ terrified her illness with inevitable hurt them

Question 5

'’this dark/ceiling without a star’’

Answer 5

◍ her perception of the world
◍ Ultimately hopeless and overwhelming depression
◍ feeling her children would be better off without her