#gender

Quick on the heels of Spring Break, another weekend and another state to add to the collection - Kentucky.

On the notion that the the “thundercloud of a common crisis” in which the characters find themselves is a product of their self-denial.

This essay explores the twin threads of trauma and creation that for Plath seem inexplicably bound to her own poetic journey, and to that of women in her society.

One offers a searing condemnation of gendered stereotypes, yet in this pairing, it makes the mesmerising, violent rebirth of the latter all the more breath-taking.