Sylvia Plath

This poem immediately gets the reader's attention by the way that it is formatted. There are 5 neat stanzas, with exactly 6 lines in each stanza. The structure is a good example of how the girl in this poem likes things to be done. If the poem was all one stanza, with no space in between, then it wouldn't represent the feelings of the girl as well. The repetition of periods at the end of each stanza also supports the attitude of the poem, which is strict in appearance.

First, there is the title. Simply the title creates a great deal of different pictures for the reader. A woman with a tight bun, dark, long clothes, and no makeup, but a very clean face, comes to mind. The use of letters in the word "spinster" are without warmth and smoothness, totally unlike a word like "lullaby" or...