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This 7 page paper discusses the feminist voice and issues addressed by Adrienne Rich and Sylvia Plath in their works: Ariel and Diving into the Wreck. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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in two of their respective works: Diving into the Wreck and Ariel. As such, both writers have quite assuredly given voice and provided a path for other women to follow,
a path which has freed the female voice and given rise to the feminist movement. When many hear the name, Sylvia Plath, if they know who she is will picture
some poor woman, driven mad by the confines of a society which refused to allow her the freedom she craved. Some see her as a martyr, dying young in a
cultural context hostile to the fuller expression she sought. In her poems, there are more or less, three ways in which she encourages the reader to consider her subjects.
First, she uses sensory imaging, the taste, touch, sight, sound, smell of the event. Secondly, she uses various poetic techniques to broaden the experience, such as rhythm, meter, and word
placement/choice. Last, she employs figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, and setting to add to the rich complexity that is characteristic of Plaths works. In Ariel, the title poem
of a collection of works, Plath immediately shows that a womans first step to obtaining her rightful position in society is to take back control of her own body. The
poem begins with darkness, of the raw pain of expectancy. And everything, from that point forward, is motion(Annas 171-183). The sense of touch, of sight are exploited. The use of
the words: pour, pivot, splits and passes, all show a forward movement toward some great accomplishment. What this movement serves to do to the reader is to
place emphasis on that which is to come. A good argument can be made for Plaths belief that true equality was coming in the future. However, this forward motion is
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