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. This can be seen in the first stanza, where she says,
             'I have given my name and my day clothes up to the nurses
             And my history to the anesthetist and my body to the surgeons'
             Later on, we also become introduced with the notion that she wants to break away from her life, which is her marriage and her children. The third stanza depicts this notion of separation from her duties as a wife and mother:
             'Now I have lost myself, I am sick of baggage-
             My husband and child smiling out of the family photo;
             Their smiles catch onto my skin, little smiling hooks'
             It seems like Plath is searching for freedom but her f...