http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/sylvia-plath Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:28:06 -0400 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:28:06 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1805/poststructuralism-and-female-identity-in-sylvia-plaths-ariel By Lillian G. Robles - Sylvia Plath’s posthumously published collection of poetry, Ariel, is perhaps best defined by the vivid imagery that delves deep into Plath’s psyche. Throughout the collection, Plath explores dimensions of herself: her past, present, and future; her demons; her place in the world. Time and time again, Ariel seems to return to essential questions about Plath’s identity. If not providing a clear answer, then Ariel, at the very least, tracks the complexity and even impossibility of any single answer. Because Ariel is an exploration of a woman’s identity and existence, it may... Wed, 30 Sep 2020 10:14 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1805/poststructuralism-and-female-identity-in-sylvia-plaths-ariel http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/683/redefining-the-elegy-in-the-twentieth-century-thomas-hardys-the-convergence-of-the-twain-and-sylvia-plaths-daddy By Kathleen E. Gilligan - Forms of poetry are constantly changing as authors stray from what is conventional and familiar, and delve into what is new and different. Elegies that one finds in twentieth century literature are far from what one would have read centuries prior, and this changing convention can be attributed to writers like Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath. Born in 1840, Thomas Hardy is often thought of as a novelist. Perhaps it is put best in Louise Dauner's "Thomas Hardy, Yet and Again" when she says of Hardy, "Though he was one of the most controversial writers of his time, this gentle, soft-voiced, self-effacing... Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/683/redefining-the-elegy-in-the-twentieth-century-thomas-hardys-the-convergence-of-the-twain-and-sylvia-plaths-daddy http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/131/sylvia-plaths-bee-sequence-a-microcosm-of-poetic-development By Natasha L. Richter - While she seems disturbingly attracted to the utter emotional detachment which death represents, Plath ends her bee sequence, and Ariel overall, with an emphasis on endurance through a winter of pain and violent struggle. Thus, the bee sequence represents, in microcosm, Plath's development as a poet. She turns away from the vulnerability expressed in "The Bee Meeting," shapes her emotions into her own poetic form in "The Arrival of the Bee Box" forges a new trajectory for a "lion-red" queen bee at the end of "Stings," and discovers a hope for which to endure in her newly defined strain of poetry... Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:18 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/131/sylvia-plaths-bee-sequence-a-microcosm-of-poetic-development http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/111/examining-oppression-through-the-lives-and-stories-of-sylvia-plath-and-charlotte-perkins-gilman By Sandra L. Meyer - Sylvia Plath‘s The Bell Jar is about a young woman named Esther Greenwood entering college in the early 1950’s, a time before the second wave of the women’s movement had been implemented. Esther has dreams of becoming a famous writer while most of the women around her dream of finding a husband. Esther does not fit in with these women - no matter how hard she tries she knows she is meant for something more than domestic life. Her struggles between the world she knows and the world she wants create an inner turmoil that eventually sends her to an institution where she receives... Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:45 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/111/examining-oppression-through-the-lives-and-stories-of-sylvia-plath-and-charlotte-perkins-gilman