Analysing Slyvia Plath’s “Mushroom” Poem Essay

The numbers Mushroom discusses the persistent struggle as the exchange theme. The lines that depicts the struggle are our hammers, our rams, earless and eyeless, perfectly voiceless as personified by the mushrooms. Plaths made use of allusions in the form of the blend stanza our originations in the door The structure of the verse form has 23 lines, with nursery rhyme quality along with many repetitions of phrasing and sounds to depict fertility. Plath use the style of poem for younger children.The persona of the poem is the author herself who had dickens failed suicidal attempts and re-evaluated by the persona in the poem either from a perspective of a rebellious present. The literary devices used in the poem are personification, fiction and allusion. Plath personified mushrooms by giving them human characteristics, found in the lines of earless and eyeless, perfectly voiceless. The author also used metaphor of the mushrooms as tables, together with their meekness. The subject mushrooms, as a metaphor for race who are often underestimated race.The poem also showed the allusion of found in the last line our foots in the door based o the Beatitude the meek shall inherit the earth. It conveys the dilemma of the oppressed (or mushroom) wherein personification of the scurvy and voiceless are found as mushrooms. The overall meaning of the poem for contemporary reading audience is to know how to have a orphic desire to gain power and control regardless of how oppressed, struggling these people are. Works Cited Plath, Sylvia, The Journals of Sylvia Plath, edited Karen V. Kukil, Faber and Faber, London, 2000.