Known for her distinctive voice and exploration of dark, violent emotions, Sylvia Plath was one of the most acclaimed poets of the twentieth century. In his poems he discusses many common themes such as family relationships, marriage, self-image, and death in unique ways. Among these themes she expresses a particularly original perspective on motherhood and its effects on the individual, which often deviates completely from the traditional vision of raising children. In her poems “Moonrise,” “Heavy Woman,” and “Morning Song,” Plath conveys the idea that motherhood, while necessary, is a personal as well as physical sacrifice that involves much pain and suffering. woman contemplating her fertility. The woman “sits dressed in white… doing nothing” (“Moonrise” 2 / 3) while the “mulberry trees white as larvae blush among the leaves” (1). Mulberry trees are undergoing the transformation from white to red, which is the process of their ripening. Their progress is continually tracked by the speaker as he once again states that the "berries turn red" (13) halfway through the poem and that the "berries turn purple" (29) at the end. The woman is also "white" (2) waiting to mature, in this case, to become pregnant, and in the end she concludes: "The white belly can still mature" (30). In this way she shows how motherhood is a necessary part of a woman's life as she is simply waiting to “mature” (30). However, it also paints pregnancy in a negative light by associating it with death and weakness. In this poem, the speaker connects whiteness with death. This connection is evident when he says that the flowers “cast a round white shadow in their dying” (“Moonrise” 6), emphasizes the white bow of a falling pigeon, and mentions a dead “white white body” (……half of the sheet ......reveals the mother's attitude towards her new role Just as in the Victorian era, when women were limited in their development as individuals and served primarily as wives and mothers, the speaker feels as if she is confined to her new role as a mother and is denied creative freedom. Clearly, Plath's poems take a profoundly different approach to the concepts of pregnancy and motherhood, which are usually considered rewarding and fulfilling phases in life. a woman, however, her poems define by the pain and stress they bring, as well as the deterioration and eventual annihilation they cause to the mother, both as an individual and in a physical sense. This new perspective brings to light the darkness and restrictions often hidden issues associated with pregnancy and motherhood that many women are unaware of but end up experiencing at some point in their lives.