Sylvia Plath poetry

Later on , after having married the English poet , Ted Hughes and having given birth to two children , Sylvia Plath has to balance life as an academic , a poet , a mother and a wife . She gives up academics . There are other women who go through the same sense of wanting to go forward in a self-fulfilling career , but society 's expectations on them as wives and mothers leave them frustrated . Anne Sexton , who is inspired by Sylvia 's poetry writes her own death-preoccupied poem and later on also commits suicide (Sylvia Plath Homepage

. Being a frustrated housewife , she must have found a kindred spirit in Plath . The suicides are interpreted by feminists as Plath 's response to the oppression of women ' while her critics denounces her as a shrew (Martin , 1973 . Critics , such as Elizabeth Hardwick and Irving Howe , condemn her writings as self-indulgent ' and fascinated with hurt and damage and fury (Martin , 1973 . They picture Plath as a spoiled brat who wants to be noticed and affirmed , consoled and pitied Even Hammer describes her writing as histrionic ' like that of the writings of Edgar Allan Poe (Hammer , Summer 2001 . Moreover , the critics believe that Plath should have not continued feeding her anger years after her father 's death . Meanwhile , since feminists recognize her work and death as a form of martyrdom , they believe that her death is a wakeup call to all of those who oppress women , whether physically or emotionally . However , continuing the train of thought that Plath is creating several lives for herself and that she has created these images of herself from her poetry , her preoccupation with the subject of death and the importance of self-image have lead to her suicide . Therefore her suicide cannot be considered martyrdom

Plath is a prolific writer , whose brand of confessional...