movement and confinement - a ruthless , unstoppable force to be feared .
Eve Gates
Conclusively , this is an enthralling sonnet which draws on the perhaps hollow , sombre theme of death and finality , and the helplessness surrounding such a sorrowful situation . Plath has incorporated a number of literary devices , most notably personification and juxtaposition , to represent that hiding in the light will not shield you from your fate . However , the structure of this sonnet is significant , as it is written almost like a distorted , reversed love letter , which accentuates the personification of time as a machine of destruction of life and an unstoppable , intangible force . All living creatures , as mortals , no matter the social class , religion or riches , will have to face their unavoidable death . This may be considered morbid or bleak to some , but realistically , this poem is promoting becoming comfortable with the inevitable and allowing time to whisk you away towards a natural death as time goes on .
Bibliography :
Mark Strand and Eavan Boland , The Making of a Poem : A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms ,
The Heroic Couplet ( New York & London : W . W . Norton & Company , 2000 ) p 121 .
Mark Strand and Eavan Boland , The Making of a Poem : A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms , The Sonnet at a Glance ( New York & London : W . W . Norton & Company , 2000 ), p 55 .
Eve Gates English UG
Eve Gates has just finished her first year as an English Undergraduate at the University of Liverpool . Gates is especially interested in creative writing and poetry , and is hoping to persue a future career as an author .
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