rnFarther+off+than+Australia.

I imagine a pregnant mother can become very frustrated through nine months of pregnancy. The baby's eventual arrival, at various times, must seem like a distant, distant event. The image of a place "farther off than Australia" that Plath uses, really helps me understand the magnitude of just how far the birth must seem for the speaker. I chose this image to illustrate a point even farther away than the remote continent of Australia. I'm trying to show the intense degree of distance that Plath's image evokes in my mind.

This is image also an impatient aspect of a mother's love for a child. In this particular case, the love the mother feels for her child is either impatient or mysterious. She loves the baby, but she can't imagine it concretely yet because it's still only a very remote "idea."