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Poetry Commentary "Sleep in the Mojave Desert" Sylvia Plath
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"Sleep in the Mojave Desert" In this thirst-bringing poem by Sylvia Plath, the poet captures the extreme harshness, heat and dryness of the Mojave Desert, bringing parts of the poem together in the form of an illusion or mirage. A sentence, which I think shows that this poem uses a mirage as a theme and the effects that the sun can have on your body and mind, says this: "Noonday acts queerly on the mind's eye, erecting a line of poplars in the middle distance," The poem creates a definite situation and the landscape of a desert, I feel that it was inspired and has been written after or during a stay in the Mojave Desert, due to the vivid imagery and interesting comparisons, this is also why the poem is written in the first person. It also struck me that Plath seemed to perceive the desert as dangerous and playing...
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