Introduction In this dissertation I shall be looking at the poetry of Sylvia Plath written after 1959 and the common problems that occur when reading it. I shall show that the poetry of Sylvia Plath has many different meanings, not just the common interpretation that everything she wrote was about physical and mental atrophy. Critics and readers alike commonly suggest that Plath’s poetry is direct evidence of her mental instability, and that her poetry leaves …showed first 75 words of 10299 total…

…showed last 75 words of 10299 total…Hughes and Sylvia Plath’ Arts: A Third Level Course Twentieth Century Poetry paper prepared by Dennis Walder for the course team (The Open University Press) p. 49. xiv Rose, Jacqueline ‘The Haunting of Sylvia Plath’ (Virago Press 1991) p.205. xv Alvarex, A ‘Sylvia Plath’, ‘The Art of Sylvia Plath’ edited by Charles Newman (Faber and Faber 1970) p.64. xvi Ibid. p.67. xvii Plath, Sylvia ‘Letters Home’ edited and with an introduction by Aurelia Plath (Harper and Row 1975) p. 288.