Sylvia Plath's Poetry: Feminine Perfection

Part I of Essay
"Almost all of Sylvia Plath's poems seem to be written by a perfectionist.", writes Marcia Dahlman in Being Perfect. Plath transmutes the domestic and the ordinary into the hallucinatory, the utterly strange. Her revision of the romantic ego dramatizes its tendency toward ....

Part II of Essay
.... her first poem when she was eight. Her father's death in 1940 from gangrene ( the consequence of a diabetic condition that he refused to treat), Plath was only eight years old, this was the crucial event of her childhood. In her poem "Daddy" we see Plath's imaginative transformations of experience into myths where the figure of her Prussian father is transformed into an emblem for masculine authority. "Every woman adores a fascist, The boot in the face the brute Brute heart of a brute like you." (48-50) Sylvia Plath wanted to become a ....