Abstract
Confessional Mode of Feminist Poetics: Sylvia Plath on Love, Life and Death
Highlights
The modest goal is to examine Sylvia Plath's poetry because in her writing she presents a feminist point of view even though her mental illness and subsequent suicide have characterized her life and her legacy
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, this form of writing emerged and the midtwentieth century confessional poetry dealt with themes and subjects that had not been previously explored in American poems
Sylvia Plath referred to her first suicide attempt in her most famous poem, "Daddy", she wrote, "At twenty I tried to die. /but they pulled me out of the sack, /And they stuck me together with glue" [222]
Summary
The modest goal is to examine Sylvia Plath's poetry because in her writing she presents a feminist point of view even though her mental illness and subsequent suicide have characterized her life and her legacy. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, this form of writing emerged and the midtwentieth century confessional poetry dealt with themes and subjects that had not been previously explored in American poems.
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