The Emotional Journey in Sylvia Plath's Parliament Hill Fields

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and pale'', and ``round sky''. Although Plath is describing the scenery found at the park, she uses vocabulary that suggests an emotional tone of sadness. The reader first realizes the cause of the speaker's pain at the end of the first stanza. ``Your absence is inconspicuous; / Nobody can tell what I lack.'' (4-5) Although one may not be sure what is missing from the speaker's life, we know she is greatly missing someone. As we move on to the next stanza, Plath uses figurative imagery to show the speaker's feeling of despair. Much like the gulls at the river ``Settling and stirring like blown paper / Or the hands of an invalid'' (8-9), the speaker holds no control over the pain she is feeling. Using melancholy adjectives to describe the natural environment, Plath creates a tone of depression in which the majority of the poem will develop.

We begin to better understand the reason of her distress when the speaker views the girls in the park. She so much desires her child ...

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