Discuss and Analyse at least Three Poems by Sylvia Plath.
In the following essay, I will begin to discuss three poems written by the contemporary poet, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). I have taken three poems from her "Ariel" collection, and they are "On the arrival of the Bee Box", "Tulips" and "Wintering". It is the hostile and often violent imagery in her poems that have been brought to my attention. These poems, particularly these three, reflect Plath's strong resistance to the prospect of domestic entrapment as a wife and as a mother. Issues such as the feminist points of view and being a female poet in the American society will be addressed in the following as well. In Plath's later works, they were written at the time before she died, and this is where we are engaged in her psyche through her poems. In "Tulips", Plath expresses her feelings through this poem, where she was in hospital for an appendectomy. She went through a miscarriage just a short time before this operation, and it is with this that is probably why the poem has the association of death and birth. The woman in the poem seems to grasp eagerly at the ability to relax completely because nothing is required of her, and thus becomes encompassed with the notion that she wants to become someone without a personal identity
Pinsky (1976) states that a contemporary poem is 'about exemplifying; and to exemplify is to make a connection between the realm of things and the realm of ideas, yoking thought and experience by a gesture of the will' (1976, p. Contemporary poet Sylvia Plath was one of the first American women writers to refuse to conceal or disguise her true emotions; in articulating her art, she effectively challenged the traditional literary prioritization of female experience. Sylvia Plath is significant in the understanding of the concept of feminism and how it being 'new' in the 1960s, her works allows people to become more involved with this notion. Her poetry was her source of refuge which has struggled into being against only slightly less resistance. Her description of the box, "the box is locked" because its contents are "dangerous", yet speaker "can't get away from it", perhaps shows that she does not want to be repressed anymore. Grabher and Devine (1991) states that, 'an acknowledged "body of female poetry" was obviously missing until the end of the 19th century. Thus, we see that Sylvia Plath refuses to follow this concept of feminine decorum and dares to express her negative emotions. The poem "The Arrival of the Bee Box" reflects Plath's thoughts of a suppression of her inner aggressions. In the eighth stanza, it becomes apparent that she is describing how she probably hates men at the moment. According to Waggoner (1968), he says that 'they shared both a repudiation of our cultural past and a distaste for present society, each school in its own way doing what Olson called "clearing away the junk of history"' (1968, p. Plath's works are significant in understanding what was going through her mind during the last stages of her life. This poem thus invites readers to understand her emotions during this period of time.
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