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.
As tragic and dark as her end would be, it's nonetheless thrilling to watch this great artist becoming herself. (WLC 4: 2740-2745) In this 1959 poem, which gave its title to Plath’s poetry collection, she tries to cope with the memory of her father, who died when she was eight years old. The poem is notoriously full of imagery that tends to be hard to imagine.. For thisreason, it is often talked about with “Daddy,” ; a poem that came months after. No matter what feelings one attaches to the speaker, it's great imagery and mood are. The speaker crouches in the ear of a giant statue that overlooks the world, a powerful, and disturbing image that many can relate to even if their relationship with their fathers are not quite like Plath’s. (WLC 4: 2738-2740)