Sylvia Plath: Poems
Discuss Sylvia Plath's 'The Moon and The Yew Tree' as a poem depicting the mental state of a troubled childhood.
With a comparison text and literary elements
With a comparison text and literary elements
Sylvia Plath wrote ‘The Moon and the Yew Tree’ in 1961 while she was suffering from writer’s block. She looked out her bedroom window to find inspirartion. I'm not convinced a troubled childhood is a theme in this. The speaker seems disalusioned: the light is “cold and planetary” but I'm not sure this is about childhood.