Gaby Setiabudi
Ms. Stronks
ELA 8
February 22, 2016
“Mushroom” Analysis
In the poem, “Mushroom” by Sylvia Plath it focuses on the topic of a mushroom in the making of its growth. The poem consists of eleven stanzas and thirty-two lines written in order write about the title, “Mushrooms.” The poem includes figurative language in the neighborhood of varieties of repetition, a magic three, and imagery. The structure of the poem consists of the same three lines for stanzas 2 through eleven except for stanza one. For example, in stanza one the first line begins with a magic three. “Overnight, veritable, discreetly,…” In spite of the second line in stanza one whereas it states, “Very quietly.” These two lines are different as it would draw the attention of the audience because of the fact that this is just the introduction to the poem and it describes the scene of what and how silent it is. The first two lines are also included as imagery for the reason it aides the readers in imagining how the scene would sound like because they include the use of four adjectives to describe the first opening of the scene. Additionally, the use of repetition is mentioned throughout the poem on two separate occasions of the same word. “Nobody sees us, Stops us, betrays us,…” “So many of us! So many of us!” In lines six and seven on stanza two, Plath repeats the word, “us” as she is trying to state a fact of how nobody is paying attention, taking the time to acknowledge it, or commit an act of betrayal to it as Plath has not stated what she is specifically writing about yet. Also importantly, in lines twenty-two and twenty-three Plath includes another example of a repetition. “So many of us! So many of us!” The repetition Plath uses is to focus on how there are quite a lot of mushrooms growing and expanding to notice how much there is. In spite of the fact that she has never actually mentioned once the title, “Mushroom” the readers can assume she is in fact discussing mushrooms as it is the title of the poem.
Ms. Stronks
ELA 8
February 22, 2016
“Mushroom” Analysis
In the poem, “Mushroom” by Sylvia Plath it focuses on the topic of a mushroom in the making of its growth. The poem consists of eleven stanzas and thirty-two lines written in order write about the title, “Mushrooms.” The poem includes figurative language in the neighborhood of varieties of repetition, a magic three, and imagery. The structure of the poem consists of the same three lines for stanzas 2 through eleven except for stanza one. For example, in stanza one the first line begins with a magic three. “Overnight, veritable, discreetly,…” In spite of the second line in stanza one whereas it states, “Very quietly.” These two lines are different as it would draw the attention of the audience because of the fact that this is just the introduction to the poem and it describes the scene of what and how silent it is. The first two lines are also included as imagery for the reason it aides the readers in imagining how the scene would sound like because they include the use of four adjectives to describe the first opening of the scene. Additionally, the use of repetition is mentioned throughout the poem on two separate occasions of the same word. “Nobody sees us, Stops us, betrays us,…” “So many of us! So many of us!” In lines six and seven on stanza two, Plath repeats the word, “us” as she is trying to state a fact of how nobody is paying attention, taking the time to acknowledge it, or commit an act of betrayal to it as Plath has not stated what she is specifically writing about yet. Also importantly, in lines twenty-two and twenty-three Plath includes another example of a repetition. “So many of us! So many of us!” The repetition Plath uses is to focus on how there are quite a lot of mushrooms growing and expanding to notice how much there is. In spite of the fact that she has never actually mentioned once the title, “Mushroom” the readers can assume she is in fact discussing mushrooms as it is the title of the poem.