best describes Plath’s technique in her poem “Edge”?

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Sylvia Plath wrote the poem in opposition to her husband, Ted Hughes' game shooting. It was written after she realises Hughes' marital infidelity. Using the pheasant as a representation of her marriage with Ted Hughes, she pleads with him that the pheasant(their love) not to be killed. Love is special like the pheasant, unique, as she describes in the poem, but she feels troubled with it's presence. Plath reveals herself to be an intruder of love - she has never really accustomed to love and recalls her uneasiness with Hughes.