The Moon and the Yew Tree

What is the narrator point of view in Plath's poem, The Moon and the Yew Tree?

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The Moon and the Yew Tree is spoken from the perspective of an unnamed narrator. The speaker uses first person singular pronouns and possessives throughout the verse.

There are plausible grounds for regarding the speaker as a proxy for the author of the poem herself. Sylvia Plath conceivably shares the reticence towards the European tradition of Christian practice and scripture, and, through the speaker of the poem, conveys this skepticism by affiliating herself with the natural divinity of the moon. The yew tree, in the poem, serves as an accomplice to the prowess of the moon, with Sylvia Plath writing in a wryly amorous way about both natural totems.

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