Plath Sylvia
Even in her earlier poems, Sylvia Plath displays an unhealthy preoccupation with sex, madness, morbidity and obscurity.There seem to be a number of common themes running through all of Plath’s poems, which encapsulate her personal attitudes and feelings of life at the time she wrote them. Of these themes, the most prevalent are: sex, madness, morbidity and obscurity. The whole concept of sex to Plath appears to be a very disturbed and resentful one. This is conveyed strongly through the poem Maudlin (a poem about self-pity) in which Plath evokes her bitterness toward masculinity with the aid of the two characters, the Virgin and Jack. Jack is described as having a “crackless egg” and being “navel-knit” (ie: cold hearted and impregnable). He is given an arrogant, macho image too: “With a claret hogshead to swig, he kings it”. Plath’s sourness becomes apparent when Jack’s lifestyle of luxury is compared to the repressed and disturbed life of suffering which the “sleep-talking virgin” leads. The idea of sleep-talking evokes her pain and suffering, leaking from her subconscious. Her torment does not end on the inside however, according to Plath who describes further physical and mental torture endured by women wh
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Approximate Word count = 1000
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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