What features of song do you get in “Morning Song?”
What features of song do you get in Morning Song NU Sylvia Plath s - Morning Song is a poem about the birth of her child and her first experience of motherhood The title itself suggests a song Throughout the poem Plath uses different features of song to show the baby s cries and sounds Baby s Cry as a Song At the beginning Plath describes the baby s first cry The baby cries when the midwife slaps the bottoms of the baby s feet Plath compares the baby s cry to a sound that enters the world like a new element She writes Bald cryTook its place among the elements Echo Plath says the parents voices echo Here echo is an auditory image that stirs our sense of hearing like a song It is like a song that welcomes the arrival of the baby Baby s Breath Later Plath
compares the baby s breathing to soft music She calls it moth-breath Then she compares the baby s breath to the sound of a far sea in her ear All these auditory images stir our sense of hearing like a song Baby s Vowel Sounds In the final stanza Plath describes the baby s vowel sounds The baby tries its handful of notes as if the baby is an untrained singer Plath writes Your handful of notes The clear vowels rise like balloons She compares the baby s vowel sounds to musical notes that rise like music in the air Musical Quality of the Poem Though the poem has no rhyme scheme we find assonance Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words It adds musical flow to the poem For example Your mouth opens clean as a cat s Here the a sound in as and nbsp cat s and the long o sound in mouth and opens create musical flow Hence we find many auditory images like the baby s first notes cry breath and echo in the poem These images and the musicality are the features of the song we get in Morning Song