reedom is both wonderful and terrible, as her 'hooks' in her life are her family, and to lose them, she must therefore die in order to be free. This idea of freedom can thus be seen in stanza five:
             'I didn't want any flowers, I only wanted
             To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty'
             "Tulips" is not a cheerful poem, but the emotions that are encompassed within it progresses from that of cold to warmth, from numbness to love, all in a process by which are manipulated by the associations of her imagination.
             The poem "The Arrival of the Bee Box" reflects Plath's thoughts of a suppression of her inner aggressions. It is the two metaphors in the poem, the coffin of the midget and the square baby, which can be understood as the descriptions of her inner suppressed emotions that are undeveloped or malformed when cramped into conventional structures. 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. However, to remove her inhibitions, it will be dangerous to do so as she is faced with the threat that what is inside may destroy her:
             'I wonder if they would forget me
             If I just undid the locks and stood back and turned into a tree'
             'They might ignore me immediately'
             Perhaps, the bees represent her innermost feelings, ones that are repressed and she dreads the possibility of becoming overcome by her own memories and outrages. The sounds that are emitting from the box are the sounds of her own anger and fury, and she is appalled at the fact that she is unable to articulate an outrage, can never hear it as well. It is her last line of the poem that creates a
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