What does"Little stalk without wrinkle" mean in the poem "Child" by Sylvia Plath?

Question

What does "dark ceiling without a star" mean in "Child" as well

Answer 1

little stalk without a wrinkle means young child just starting to grow (stalk) and no wrinkles child hasn't aged to have wrinkles and also may mean hasn't been influenced by the world and caused to have prejudices or judgments of others.

dark ceiling without a star means ...no knowledge good or bad has been implanted in the child's world and the ceiling can be filled with wondrous things taught by the teacher or that the mother can add to the child's world

Basically a child is born innocent and like blank pages in a book... those in their world teach them all things...people can add love and joy or hate and prejudices... this person talking to the child wishes to add joyful and wondrous things

Answer 2

Child

Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing.
I want to fill it with color and ducks,
The zoo of the new
Whose name you meditate --
April snowdrop, Indian pipe,
Little

Stalk without wrinkle,
Pool in which images
Should be grand and classical

Not this troublous
Wringing of hands, this dark
Ceiling without a star.

Sylvia Plath

Stalk without a wrinkle (Untouched by time or cares)
this dark Ceiling without a star (Comparing it to her own worried state.)

Answer 3

a little stalk without a wrinkle is a child. you know, a small stalk, like a baby plant, and no wrinkles, like not old.

i have no idea what the other part means without seeing the poem.

Answer 4

it might mean I said might mean a Little stalk without wrinkle on him
;a dark celling with no stars on it