Tulips Sylvia Plath’s poem “Tulips” is a hazy, inner observation of the speaker’s experiences fighting for death in a world full of life. Plath uses poetic devices to effectively illuminate the speaker’s emotional; yet numb feelings in the state of depression and unhappiness. She also includes imagery that continues throughout the entire poem for example the image of the water. She sets the mood of the poem as being a depressing, dark …showed first 75 words of 738 total…

…showed last 75 words of 738 total…confusion and depression of the speaker. The stanzas are all seven lines long keeping the poem consistent in length and in reading. To conclude, Sylvia Plath’s poem “Tulips”, is the examination of the speakers choice between life and death. The tulips illustrate the dimension between the two. The speaker became aware that the freedom of death is wonderful and awful. One must weight the consequences of each, always knowing what is being left behind.