Point Shirley Sylvia Plath Analysis
Sylvia Plath wrote plenty of short stories and poems in her short lived career. Most of the poems in The Colossuss are the work of an obviously talented writer who is having trouble finding a subject. In Point Shirley, we see Plath's exquisite sentences hard at work describing what's actually going on. The strange psyche at the core of these poems is made powerful by its seemingly limitless ability to endure self hatred. But before the destruction, we get to watch Plath begin to become a great poet. Most poets slowly edge their way, poem by poem then book by book, to their major work. Plath got there in a couple of bursts; first in The Colossus, then a few years later in the months before she died when she wrote much of what would become Ariel.