Mushroom Sylvia Plath Analysis

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Coco Kraaijeveld van Hemert Melissa Bagg English IV 13.09.2011 Journal #2 In the poem Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath many happenings are told at once. At first I needed to read the poem many times before I could get a little flow and understanding. What I have discovered is that Sylvia is putting in a lot of things of life into one poem. “We are shelves , we are tables, we are meek”, this gives me a sight of the slavery on our world. These people are used as dirt. They have to do all the hard work and are used just like shelves or tables. People put their trouble which they don’t want to do on their shoulder, just like one would lean on a table to rest. Those humans who treat other humanbeeings in a bad way is because they think that they are less worthy and just as the sentence says: meek, which means weak and small. “We diet on water”, I can see this small sentence including “...We are edible”, and the first stanza “Overnight, very whitely, discreetly, very quietly” that this poem can also be about. Overnight it rests and glows it whiteness of into the moonlight. As soon as it rains the mushroom sucks up the water and breaths in the air and this mixture gives them new power to grow and glow. If I take all the stanzas together I can also imaging that it is about death and rebirth. Overnight (stanza 1) many people die, very quietly and turn white. In line 8 it says that nobody can stop them. Nobody can stop somebody from dying it is a natural progress and its unstoppable. “Earless and eyeless, perfectly voiceless”, line 15 and 16 is covering that if one is dead one cant see, speak nor hear. One is silent and in peace. The last stanzas show rebirth . “Our kind multiplies: We shall by morning inherit the earth”, new come and new come. Every second new humans get born and put a new step in our door, like the last line “Our foots in the door”. The flow of this

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