西尔维娅·普拉斯(Sylvia Plath,1932—1963)为美国自由派代表诗人,是继艾米莉·狄金森与伊丽莎白·毕肖普之后对美国现代文坛颇具影响的女诗人。《应聘者》是她生前最后一部作品。临终前的普拉斯运用隐喻创作了绝笔之作《应聘者》,将她眼中虚伪自私的男性形象展现得淋漓尽致。本文从隐喻的视角剖析该作品,可以客观地阐释普拉斯对全诗四个小节的隐喻建构过 Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), a liberal American representative poet, is a poet who influenced Emma Dickinson and the American modern literary world after Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop. “Candidates” is her last work before his death. Before his death, Plass used metaphors to create a “candidate” for the pen, showing the masculine and selfish male figure in her eyes vividly. This paper analyzes the work from the perspective of metaphor, which can objectively explain the metaphorical construction of four sections