Voice from the Margin: Feminist Identity in Plath’s Collected Poems

Abstract

Sylvia Plath harshly attacks repressive patriarchal society which has not only rendered women as sub-human, inferior, mysterious, and uncertain but also has rendered the female insignificant . In the Collected Poems, Plath exposes the discrimination and violence meted out to females and their bodies. While exposing this, Plath raises her voice vehemently against patriarchy, which reflects her attempt to claim female identity and subjectivity as separate niche.