Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath I chose Sylvia Plath as my poet for this project. She was born to middle class parents in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts and she wrote her first poem when she was eight. She was what you would call the perfect daughter. She was popular smart and she won various scholastic prizes. Her perfection was just a false image because deep down inside side had many problems that she kept bottled up. Sylvia lost …

…uses so much abstract language that she makes it seem like her poems all have triple meanings. In her quote she says, “An arena of yellow eyes watched the changing shape he cut, Saw white hoofed harden from foot to foot, saw sprout Goat thorns. Marked how god rose and galloped in that guise.” Now you tell me what you think she’s talking about. She could be talking about an owl, goat, man, anything.