Plath uses personification in her poetry in order to allow her to discuss the fragility of the human condition and to exaggerate how the human life is very fragile. She wrote “black rock” as she desires back talk from the mute sky, Plath doesn’t believe in God explaining why she says, “it’d be nice”, Plath also refers to how she wishes she knew the intelligence behind nature. Black rock is mainly written in an Atheist world view, she speaks about the aspects of nature being God like because it last’s so long, where as we as humans live for a limited amount of time while nature lives on. She writes about this to draw attention to the fact that it’s the opposite “world is cruel etc.”. “Ripped and pulsed in the glassy updraught,” this also backs up what she thinks of the world as she talks about how the sun was baring down on the dead man’s body giving him no privacy and any sympathy making nature again seem violent using the sun. Plath uses personification to to convey the idea that nature is unsympathetic o the human
Plath uses personification in her poetry in order to allow her to discuss the fragility of the human condition and to exaggerate how the human life is very fragile. She wrote “black rock” as she desires back talk from the mute sky, Plath doesn’t believe in God explaining why she says, “it’d be nice”, Plath also refers to how she wishes she knew the intelligence behind nature. Black rock is mainly written in an Atheist world view, she speaks about the aspects of nature being God like because it last’s so long, where as we as humans live for a limited amount of time while nature lives on. She writes about this to draw attention to the fact that it’s the opposite “world is cruel etc.”. “Ripped and pulsed in the glassy updraught,” this also backs up what she thinks of the world as she talks about how the sun was baring down on the dead man’s body giving him no privacy and any sympathy making nature again seem violent using the sun. Plath uses personification to to convey the idea that nature is unsympathetic o the human