In Mad Girls Love Song by Sylvia Plath a feeling of depression and insanity are quickly introduced. One immediately observes the dark depressing tone that Plath creates in this Poem. The poem begins with 2 lines that represent the authors depressing attitude. "I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead" "I lift my lids and all is born again" Shutting her eyes allow her to "get away" or maybe block out the things around her and lifting them allows her to regain her sanity and hope that she had lost.

In this poem Plath describes a relationship, one with a man that she thinks is so great that she says "I think I made you up inside my head" In her life Plat was married, however they separated, which could have inspired her to write this poem. She feels sorrow and through this poem she exerts the...