Plath Sylvia

Even in her earlier poems, Sylvia Plath displays an unhealthy preoccupation with sex, madness, morbidity and obscurity. Discuss. There seem to be a number of common themes running through all of Plath’s poems, which encapsulate her personal attitudes and feelings of life at the time she wrote them. Of these themes, the most prevalent are: sex, madness, morbidity and obscurity. The whole concept of sex to Plath appears to be a very disturbed and …

…arched green stem of my neighbor’s rose bush” as “a milk-film blurs the empty bottles on the windowsill”, it is unclear how these two things are connected until one realises that they aren’t meant to be related. It is this random obscurity that Plath seems to be obsessed with in Suicide off Egg Rock, where the man sees many obscure images as he falls and is “rippled and pulsed in the glassy updraught”.