In this paper consisting of three pages such literary devices as imagery as they apply to Plath's poem are discussed and examples of nonsensical words are also examined. There are three bibliographic sources cited.
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dark and depraved mind. However, those who study Plath usually come to realize that Plath was as complex a person as any. She was that incredible mixture of good and
evil, logic and unreason, which were embodied in the form of her poetry. All poets write about what moves them the most, whether that motivation is fear, love or somewhere
in the regions between. Plaths desire to be taken seriously, to deal with the pain she had been dealt by the hands of the men she had known and loved,
proved to be the moving catalyst which compelled her to pen some of the finest insights into a womans mind the world has ever seen. Such is the case for
her poem, Above the Oxbow. In her poems, there are more or less, three ways in which she encourages the reader
to consider the images and message she wants to convey. First, she uses sensory imaging, the taste, touch, sight, sound, smell of the event. Secondly, she uses various poetic techniques
to broaden the experience, such as rhythm, meter, and word placement/choice. Last, she employs figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, and setting to add to the rich complexity that
is characteristic of Plaths works. "Back of the Connecticut, the river-level Flats of Hadley
farms, theyre lofty enough Elevations to be called something more than hills"(Plath 2003).
In the above passage, one can see the visual landscape which she has painted. This is followed by references to the sense of touch "They mound a summer coolness" and