The well-known female poet, Sylvia Plath, has written many poems over her life and has grabbed the attention of young adults along with Women’s Studies. She also has a distinctive poetry style and is often described as “confessive”. The way people perceive and value nature can be explained through many emotions.
Writing over four-hundred poems in her four years at Smith College, Sylvia Plath is known as an illustrious poet, with many of her poems being about nature and her emotions and events that have happened throughout her life. In her poem “Daddy”, she shows her feelings of hatred and betrayal in her relationship with her father when she says “There’s a stake in your fat black heart and the villagers never liked you. They are dancing and stamping on you. They always knew it was you. Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through.” In that quote, Plath explains how her relationship between her and her father has impacted on her life since he died when Plath was eight. In another one of her poems “Flute Notes From A Reedy Pond”, she writes about nature with the tone of the poem being abandoned; “Into a soft caul of forgetfulness. The fugitive colors die”.
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In “Yaddo : The Grand Manor”, nature makes the poem sound peaceful when Plath writes “Wakens, mornings, to a cobalt sky, A diamond-paned window, Zinc-white snow.” In those lines, the way Plath uses metaphors with the theme of nature brings out the peaceful, optimistic idea of this poem. In her other poem “Letter To A Purist”, Plath uses nature in a slightly different way, describing nature being aggressive towards a large boat; “The envious assaults of the sea (Essaying, wave by wave)”. Her use of nature in this point of view gives the poem a more guilty tone. In many of Sylvia Plath’s poems, she uses nature which can make poems have a variation of tones and a way of making people feel different emotions about the poem