Child
Child - fact Summary
Addressed to Her Son
This short lyric is believed to be addressed to Plath’s son, Friedreich, born in 1960. That biographical link frames the poem as a maternal plea: the speaker cherishes the child’s "clear eye" and wants to fill his world with beauty and pristine images. The poem contrasts that idealized infancy with the adult anxieties the speaker fears will intrude, ending on a bleak note about loss of innocence.
Read Complete AnalysesYour clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing. I want to fill it with color and ducks, The zoo of the new Whose name you meditate -- April snowdrop, Indian pipe, Little Stalk without wrinkle, Pool in which images Should be grand and classical Not this troublous Wringing of hands, this dark Ceiling without a star.
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