Theses and Dissertations
Issuing Body
Mississippi State University
Advisor
Lyons, Richard
Committee Member
Pierce, Catherine
Committee Member
West, Robert M.
Date of Degree
5-6-2017
Original embargo terms
MSU Only Indefinitely
Document Type
Graduate Thesis - Campus Access Only
Major
English
Degree Name
Master of Arts
College
College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Department of English
Abstract
Sylvia Plath utilizes confessional poetry to subvert traditional gender roles and provide commentary on the expectations of those positions in both the domestic and social spheres. I argue that Plath uses the motherigure and her relationship to children in order to exploit this role, and in the distance that she places between the two, she provides a new role for the female speaker. I also discuss my own poetry’s use of the motherigure. In the second part of my thesis, I explore this and other feminine concerns through poetry.
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11668/17703
Recommended Citation
Flowers, Jessica Ann, "What my Mother Never Told Me about Birth" (2017). Theses and Dissertations. 5006.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/td/5006