Women's Dislocated Relations To Speech By Sylvia Plath

The article written by Steven Gould Axelrod; regarding most of Sylvia Plath’s stories or poems, is mainly an analysis of how Plath writes and how her works develop through out everything she writes. My main view about this article written by Gould, is that he does have very strong argumentative point about how Plath’s works grow and are related to each other. The critic Gould has a views points to make about the writing, the first one that he mentions is that Plath’s writing is a “ woman’s dislocated relations to speech”. The second point I feel he had a strong support on was when he claims that Plath uses her stories and poems to create what can be understood as a series. I agree with most, probably all of the points that Gould has made regarding Plaths writing. Although the one thing that I would have to agree while also disagreeing is when he points out a generalizing point rather than speaking specifically about Plath.

Although, I do see that he has a supporting claim after which he writes “ Plath herself introduced it on the BBC as the opposite of confession”. Rather, if he had mentioned that Plath was an example of a woman with such dislocation of speech it would have been more understood as an analysis of her writing. Gould writing this could potentially confuse the reader by having the reader think that Gould is using Plath as an example for an article about women in general having “dislocated relations to speech”. After I read the supporting claims, I understood where Gould was going with his statement, therefore I agree with what he