rnw+Thumbs-down+on+the+dodo’s+mode



"Thumbs-down on the dodo's mode." The comparison that Sylvia Plath makes with this line is that a baby brings life into the world. By having a baby be born it continues to make new people and renew life, its a way to keep the cycle of human life going. The dodo bird because the dodo bird is extinct and there for can no longer be a part of new life. The baby is giving a "thumbs-down" to the "dodo's mode" because when a baby is born it brings new life and a new person to the world and the dodo being dead can be considered as taking away from new life from the world. They are opposites and the baby bringing new life sort of becomes bigger and is more important then the dead and the taking away from life, so the baby gets to give the "thumbs-down" to the dodo and not the other way around.