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A Comparison of the poems 'You're' and 'Morning Song' by Sylvia Plath Although 'You're' and 'Morning Song' are both about the relationship between a mother and her child, we can see differences in the nature of this relationship as each poem develops: the attitude of the mother in 'You're' towards her child seems very excited and she is hopeful about its arrival but, although the mother in 'Morning Song' appears at first to share this hope and anticipation, her attitude towards her child is less optimistic and there is arguably also a greater sense of 'distance' between mother and child. Although this distance is not physical, a reader is made aware of it through the use of very powerful and vivid imagery by the speaker. Initially, 'You're' and 'Morning Song' seem to be very similar. They are both about a child and its birth and its mother's feelings about it. In both...

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