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Sylvia Plath: Consider how the poems dealing with Mother and Child convey a startling variety of responses Although each of the poems in question (You’re, Morning Song, By Candlelight, Nick and the Candlestick and Mary’s Song) focuses on the relationship bet ....

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.... and psychiatry (superconscious, conscious, subconscious) to name but a few, while nine is the number of months in a human pregnancy (divided into three trimesters). Sevens also occur frequently: there are seven cardinal virtues; seven deadly sins; seven ages of man; seven days in a week and seven seals in the book of revelation. Although the range of emotions is spread between the poems, they do seem to follow a linear course as the sequence progresses. You’re begins with the persona (whom we can assume to be an expectant mother) talking to her foetus, and she believes that it is enjoying itself: "You’re/ Clown like, happiest on your hands". ....