Sylvia Plath was one of the se…

Sylvia Plath was one of the self-motivated and well-regarded poets of 20th century. Plath’s personal tragedies led to her poetries. These poetries have strange and frightening tone that foreshadows the tragic death of the author. She was already in the literary community by the time she took her life at age 30. Her poems show pain, hate, mistrust, darkness, and the need for acceptance and love, that is how she portrayed her life. Plath was threatened by male dominance which is why most of her poetry was driven by anger and vengefulness toward her domineering husband Ted Hues.

Her poetry also explores her attachment to her father, who she described as another controlling figure. During much of Plath’s adult life depression and suicide attempt took place and it became the subject of her most famous poems. However, Plath’s poetry became a voice against female subordination which were relatable issues to many women in that period.

In three of her most well-known work are “Lady Lazarus”, “The Applicant” and “Daddy”, Sylvia Plath empowers all the women by revealing her own personal struggle against a male dominant society and thus creating a strong feminine voice. Her poetry is not just autobiographical, it is also confessional in the sense of documenting her feelings, which are often confrontational. Plath’s complicated relationship with her father inspired her to write “Daddy” which expresses her emotions towards her father’s life, death. Plath’s father died when she was only 10.

This was the time when she pictured him as hero. After growing up she started to compare him to a Nazi because she figured out the flaws within her father. She could express love for her father in the poem as he passed away but she didn’t. Plath described her dad as a man who wouldn’t let her speak. Because in the poem she wrote In “Daddy”, Plath wrote, “The tongue stuck in my jaw. / It stuck in a barb wire snare. / Ich, ich, ich, ich, / I could hardly speak.

” Plath also stated, “You died before I had time.” This represents the male-controlled nature of the era in which Plath lived. During that period, men didn’t care about what a woman had to say. She’s highlighting the fact that men made all the decisions on their own and gave no power to women which made women voiceless and powerless. Plath’s failed marriage with Ted Hughes also helped in the making of “Daddy”. Plath’s failed marriage with Ted Hughes also helped in the making of “Daddy”. Not only does it express her emotions towards her father, but also her husband.

Plath found many connections between her father and Ted Hughes, in a few of her poems; she compares them to the devil, vampires and even Nazi. Basically, she was depressed all her life and committed suicide.Since ancient time, women were neglected in the society. Many writers such as Sylvia Plath wrote against male dominant cultures and systems. She used her personal problems to speak about cultural concerns many of which apply to women’s struggle and evolution in modern society. The poem “Lady Lazarus” deals with the consequences of failed suicide attempts. Sylvia Plath had suffered from depression and it can be easily known if someone reads her poems.

In the poem she introduces the speaker as “Her Doktor” and the central metaphor is, a lady named Lazarus who survived several suicide attempts. It’s about her suicide attempts and coming back from them. She also talks about her suffering because she compares her skin to “Nazi lampshade”. This is significant because Nazis used to use the skin of Jew people to make the lampshades. Plath uses this shocking metaphor to compare her suffering to the people of concentration camps. At the end of the poem she wrote, “Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air” (Plath) This evidence proves her rage against males and the urge to take revenge against them. This poem again proves her cultural objectification.