sylvia plath
Sylvia Plaths poetry is well known for it’s deeply personal and emotional subject matter. Suffering is one theme that is found throughout Plaths poetry. The later poetry of Plath portrays a negative image of both men and marriage. Most of the later poems show a woman who is trapped within a family situation or is trying to get away from one. The feeling of being trapped is evident in the poem “The Jailor” This poem is a dramatization of female victimization. Plath was very unhappy in her marriage. This is evident in the “The Jailor” where she turns the hate for her husband into a negative representation of marriage in general. Plath is trying to get the message that “Marriage is a form of imprisonment,” to the reader. The woman in this poem is suffering by the means of her husband behavior. “The Jailor” (Plath 226) is made up of nine five-line stanzas, which present increasingly intense images of physical torture inflicted upong the speaker, by her “jailor.” The prisoner/jailor relationship is comparable to the husband/wife relationship. The poem describes this womans suffering in the sleeping with her jailor and the sexual abuse he inflicts upon her. The central theme of this poem would be the “jailors” need for his victi
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Approximate Word count = 821
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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