The central metaphor in Sylvia Plath's poem "Mushrooms" is that of the mushrooms with women and their rights in general.
A metaphor is a rhetorical device that refers to one thing but means another thing. This means that it is a comparison device that writers use to refer to things in a much rhetorical way.
- Sylvia Plath's poem "Mushrooms" is a metaphorical take on women and their fight for equal rights in a patriarchal society.
- Plath compares mushrooms rising from the ground to that of women and their decision to fight for their rights to be deemed equal.
- Like mushrooms breaking through the 'constricting' soil to come to the surface, women are also "discreetly, Very quietly" fighting for their rights in a world governed by men.
- Plath refers to the mushrooms as well as the women as "Perfectly voiceless," but also declared boldly, "Our foot's in the door."
The pattern of the mushrooms trying to get out of the soil and emerge through the cracks, the desire and attempts to be free from the constricting soil are all similar to women and their struggle to be given equal rights with the men.
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