Sylvia Plath

Her mature poems display a deeply personal, lyrical-dramatic mode

Use of a strongly rhythmical form of free verse

An unpredictable metre

Every theme as a complex contradictory experience

Prevalence of the three-line stanza, consisting of either long or short lines.

Symbols

Choice of words with disquieting connotations

Contrast between life and death and death in life veined with anguish

Crisis of existence stemming from the loss of identity

Dissolution of the self

The experience of the family who may be destructive

Memory as the weight of past experiences

Confessional poetry

Conflict between reality and imagination

Horror and humour

Vulnerability

Double