There are many possible lives we could live but the use of Plath’s fig analogy to explore this idea is not quite right.

Simile vs. Metaphor vs. Analogy These three literary devices are all used to draw comparisons, but they differ in terms of their functions and depth.

Robert Stam, Ella Shohat, Transnationalizing Comparison: The Uses and Abuses of Cross-Cultural Analogy, New Literary History, Vol. 40, No. 3, Comparison (SUMMER 2009), pp. 473-499 ...

The notion of literary entrapment has so far not been introduced comprehensively into the study of the communication of the Fourth Gospel. This paper is an argument for the inclusion of this strategy ...