Morning Song - Sylvia Plath

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Morning Song

Love set you going like a fat gold watch.

(Love literally is meant in this line. A reference to the act

of love.)

The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry

Took its place among the elements.

(These two lines are the arrival of Plath's baby.)

The first stanza described the moment of the birth of a child

and the incoming to nature and life.

Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.

(The hospital rooms tend to hold sound, echoing. The statue

is a metaphor which is used in order to stress the nakedness

of the baby)

In a drafty museum, your nakedness

(The open airy rooms, the feeling of amazement on some level,

and both have many visitors.)

Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.

(The visitors stand around.)

I'm no more your mother

(The first appearance of the pronoun "I")

Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow

Effacement at the wind's hand.

(She sees the birth of her child as a