The Feminine Perspective and Search of Self in the Poems of Sylvia Plath

The present research paper examines and analyze the poetic world of the poetess concerned through confessional poetry. It depicts the poetic concerns from a female perspective with the purpose of identifying and comparing the poetess's strategy of response to the forces of oppression that exist in a gendered society. The paper aims to investigate the personal predilections, the biographical details and the social factors of the poets concerned through their poems, critical works, interviews, and discourses, if possible. The methodology adopted in the present paper is the intensive study of the texts. It further attempts to review Plath's poetry in the context of feminism. It looks at ideas popularized by critics like Lacan, Kristeva and Mary Daly, the changing notions of the feminine, how culture constructs ideas of what is feminine and what is femininity and then examines the poems of Sylvia Plath to conclude that Plath was a feminist writer.