The Moon and the Yew Tree Summary
Sylvia Plath

The Moon and the Yew Tree Overview

Sylvia Plath’s poem “The Moon and the Yew Tree” was first published in The New Yorker in August of 1963, one of seven poems that the literary magazine debuted. The poem is at once surreal and intensely reflective. In it Plath contemplates her own interiority as well as religious devotion, spirituality, and the nature of death and despondency.