Category: Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath does present the frightening but liberating freedom of the natural world as preferable to the oppressive, patriarchal structures of the manmade world. The poet makes effective use of conceptual landscape and personification in her poetry, and the natural world often seems to echo the narrative voices mood clearly. But at the same time…

Our collective relationship with the natural world is one fraught with tensions and paradoxes. Through a refusal to identify any form of objective truth, Ariel by Sylvia Plath moves beyond binaries to posit language as a portal into deepened self understanding. In this essay I will discuss& In this essay I will discuss how Plath…

We are in complete and total control of our thoughts, actions and everyday decisions& whether we choose to believe this is down to us. Throughout my life, I have had several times where I stopped to question myself and my happiness, and what I was doing to feed and maintain it. My curiosity for this…

Post-world war II period is incomplete without the name of Sylvia Plath. Plath being a significant artist, turned out to be reputable after her suicide in 1963. She has recognized herself because of her famous collection Ariel which hold alarming and acclaimed stanzas. She used bold and wild metaphors, repeatedly disrupting and violent symbolism to…

Sylvia Plath was widely regarded as one of the most celebrated and controversial post-war (feminists) writing in English [Oates] in the twentieth century. In her Ariel collection, Plath explores the gender inequality and expectations that plagued society at that time, and arguably today. Through her poetry, Plath criticises the social norms and values that socially…

Plath is considered to be one of the major voices writing about feminine subjects during the 1950s and the 1960s. This was a period when feminists started to acknowledge womens oppression and the 2nd wave feminist movement began in the early 1960s. Within Plaths collection of poems, Ariel, published in 1965, two years after her…

Written in 1959, Syliva Plath writes about the feelings of being in the state of pregnancy, in her poem Metaphors. Many of Plath’s works have been influenced by her experiences in dealing with maternity and fertility. Her works mirror her experiences with loss, motherhood, and family. Metaphors was one of the first poems Plath had…

Sylvia Plaths Daddy is considered by some to be one of the best examples of confessional poetry ever published. In the poem, Plath compares the horrors of Nazism to the horrors of her own life, all of which are centered on the death of her father. Although autobiographical in nature, Daddy gives detailed insight into…

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath hounds Esther Greenwood who spends the summer of 1953, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs away from hometown Massachusetts, sent off to intern in New York at a reputable fashion magazine with eleven other lucky girls. She is meant to have the time of her life, be the envy…

Throughout an examination of Plaths poetry, a reader will witness prominent themes of inadequacy and mental anguish. The poets lack of self-belief is primarily evident in Mirror, as the poet struggles to overcome her insecurities. Furthermore, Plath combats her darkest thoughts during Arrival of the Bee Box and Poppies in July as she confronts her…