Sylvia Plath's Poetry: Feminine Perfection
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"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 disproportion and excess, ....
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.... born in to middle class parents in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. She published 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 woma ....
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