Topic > Edge Analysis by Sylane Plath - 1742

At first glance, the reader will see that the author decided to write the poem in the third person. It becomes clear that the narrator is very familiar with the woman in the poem and appears to be highly opinionated about the events during the reading. When you think of third-person point of view, you think of the narrator tending to be more objective in his narration, but it is certainly clear that the narrator also believes that this woman has immortalized her perfection through suicide. . Immediately, the poem emphasizes that the woman has perfected her life through death, which implies that she has done nothing wrong, nor dishonored anyone. “The woman is perfect.” Such a general statement certainly requires some analysis on the part of the reader. The woman herself never talks about the tragedy that happened in the poem. Readers are invited to take the narrator's side from the beginning of the poem. As the poem continues, the details that are revealed become more terrifying. It seems that the woman poisoned her children. It is said in such a way that the narrator doesn't even seem to recognize the gravity of the situation. Clearly the woman in this poem was a deeply troubled person, but the narrator