In her poem "The Mirror," Sylvia Plath portrays the complexity of the struggle of the imposter, the struggle to be oneself.

The woman protagonist in the poem listens to the mirror, described as male in its harsh assessment and critical judgment. Sylvia Plath’s mirror is a metaphor for the struggle between the true ...

Sylvia Plath’s writing was witty, political, emotional and sharp. A substantial new collection includes more than 50 ...

Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...

The writer is remembered, above all, for her ruthlessness. But when I went looking for it, I found something much more ...

They stand tall in the novel and echo Sylvia Plath ... life serves as a metaphor for Samantha’s inner turmoil and search for belonging. Her creativity also extends to poetry, with Samantha ...

Ted Hughes once suggested that his romance with Sylvia Plath dominated his university years, forthrightly beginning a poem with the line “Cambridge was our Courtship.” To assume Plath felt the same is ...

Translated to the more literal medium of film, its central metaphor ... by the poet Ted Hughes after three inactive years that followed the suicide of his wife, Sylvia Plath, in 1963.

“In [Erica] Reid’s Ghost Man on Second, the real ghost man floating through the pages is the sonnet.” I n listing the ...