Week 4

This week we were introduced to Sylvia Plath and her readings in The Plath Cabinet. I have never read any of her poems until now and they seem very interesting. Plath uses a lot of concrete and abstract imagery which is quiet confusing to me, although she uses vivid detailing which gives me a clear image in my head. For example in her poem "Morning Song" she used alot of details and metaphors in which I could get a clear picture of. When she said:

Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.
In a drafty museum, your nakedness
Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.

This detailing using metaphors gave emphasis on the image she wanted to make out and doesn't use the usual images to compare too. She seems drastic with lots of emotion when comparing things that are out of the ordinary, which to me makes her a great poet.

Also this week, we learned that Plath has a lot of "first sentences" that can set the vibe and emotion of each poem differently. All of her poems are quiet different from on other using all sorts of forms. We were assigned to pick one of her first sentences and re-write a poem using that exact same first line she used. I choose "Love set you going like a fat gold watch" from Morning Song, because you could go off of that very easily with the topic of a watch or love. In this case "Love" would be the abstraction here and "fat gold watch" would be concrete. I understood what the abstract and concrete image was here but in some of her other poems its confusing because it looks like many of her images could be concrete and abstract at the same time.
I'm not really into writing poems or reading them, but reading Plath's work really catches my eye. It makes me realize and look closer at whats being said and the hidden images a poem could have. Her work is different and not all the same which makes it very interesting!