Asserting Female Identity: A Comparative Study of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath
Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, stereotyping, patriarchal society, creative impact, prose, poetry, mushrooms, gender bias.
The question of whether there is anything new to be contributed from a comparative study of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath which has been researched over and over again seems to arise at the back of researchers’ minds. However, it is true that no authentic piece of work is a finished product as much as every discovery is a life-long process.
Dickinson and Sylvia Plath were the two most prominent women writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. They lived in two different eras but they stood for a similar cause both empowered to fight for women’s dignity, liberation, and gender equality in a male dominant conventional stereotype society. Being potential intellectuals, they were not just satisfied with domestic housewife duties imposed on them by the patriarchal world. They fought to bring out their womanhood, their true self in a way they could, by writing on behave of the oppressed rest for which they are considered cornerstones of a modern more equal world.
According to the available authentic sources, patriarchal society-imposed norms and regulations that the two poets were not guilty of. Their two poems “They shut me up in Prose” and “Mushrooms”, which will be discussed in this article are visible representations of the same. The complex issues embedded in the poems extend an urgent invitation for critical studies in order to shun subjugations based on gender prejudice and support humanity to live in a just world without such biases.
In order to show the manner in which Dickinson’s and Plath's two poems portray hegemony and, more specifically, to appreciate the way they granted women a strong voice, I will analyze their poems “They shut me up in Prose”, and “Mushrooms”, from a feminist perspective.
"Asserting Female Identity: A Comparative Study of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath", IJNRD - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (www.IJNRD.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.8, Issue 3, page no.c519-c524, January-2023, Available :https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2301271.pdf
Volume 8
Issue 3,
January-2023
Pages : c519-c524
Paper Reg. ID: IJNRD_186387
Published Paper Id: IJNRD2301271
Downloads: 000118883
Research Area: Arts
Country: Senapati, Manipur, Manipur, India
DOI: http://doi.one/10.1729/Journal.33349
ISSN: 2456-4184 | IMPACT FACTOR: 8.76 Calculated By Google Scholar | ESTD YEAR: 2016
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