Women's Voice in the Poems of Sylvia Plath

Shilpi Sharma

doi:10.56062/gtrs.2022.1.2.5

Authors

Shilpi Sharma Department of English GDM College, Badaun

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56062/gtrs.2022.1.2.5

Keywords:

Womanhood, Sylvia Plath, society, trauma, feminist literature.

Abstract

Women share equal rights and responsibilities in society but unfortunately, they suffer a lot based on their gender. Since time immemorial, women have been subjected to innumerable atrocities in humankind. Sylvia Plath has been a prominent figure in 20th century American literature. She is a well-known literary figure worldwide for writing on womanhood and a leading figure in the feminist literature of the 1960s. She has written about the woman, her sufferings, search for identity, and struggle to lead a happy life in her works. The present paper discusses her poems in which she has shown the condition of women in society. She has examined the problems in the poems like ‘Jailor’, ‘Lady Lazarus’, ‘Mushroom’, ‘The Applicant’ etc. are some of her poems that present the miseries of women that Sylvia Plath has faced in her life.

References

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Wagner-Martin, Linda. Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Print.