Joys of Motherhood

In the poem, Morning Song, Sylvia Plath discusses the joys of motherhood and all the wonders that it brings. Plath goes from the birth of her child and how time starts when a child is born. She states that, "Love set you going like a fat gold watch," sharing how the child is a luxury of time and how deep her love is for it (1). As time progresses from the birthing room to her home she shares how even the little incidents that are usually seen as disturbances she does with joy. "One cry, and I stumble from my bed, cow-heavy and floral/ In my Victorian nightgown," is an example of such incidents that is ironic in a sense (13-14). Plath is well dressed for bed in a gown that is elegant sleepwear, but gets out of bed in an allusion of a cow. She then skips ahead further by talking about her child's development in education. The whole poem shows how her life has been changed for the better when she had her child.