Essays on Sylvia Plath

This poem starts off by the speaker saying that her father no longer does anything anymore and calls him a black shoe. She says that for thirty years she has lived like a foot and has been poor and didn’t dare to breathe or sneeze....

Many people experience excruciating childhoods that later lead into our older ages of life, an author that had a rough childhood is Sylvia Plath. According to Biography. com, Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 27, 1932. Sylvia’s father, Otto Plath, died when she...

Ted Hughes’s Birthday Letter and Sylvia Plath’s Ariel: The Restored Edition are both books containing a series of confessional poems. Both poets are regarded as one of the most influential literary couple in the world. The relationship between Hughes and Plath remained controversial in the...

An overarching theme in The Bell Jar is society’s belittling of women’s roles in the 1950s. Esther, the main character, faces many obstacles as a woman in the 1950s. However, she does not always adhere to the social norms of the time. For example, Esther...