Sylvia Plath: Poems

Child

Comment on the effect of the references to flowers and plants in lines 5-7

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I think the flowers represent innocence and perfection of the child. There is something unspoiled about the flowers and the child. She imagines her young son learning the names of tiny white flowers, and hopes that what he sees through his “clear eye” is always “grand and classical.”