critically analyse the
poem, The Bee Omeeting
by Sylvia Plath.
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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath and a Summary of 'The Bee Meeting'
'The Bee Meeting' is the first poem in the 'Bee Poems' sequence, five poems Sylvia Plath wrote in October 1962.
The poems are seen as an exploration into identity via poetical metaphor, the hive as a mind, the bees as critical elements within society, the queen bee as speaker (as the poet herself) and the apiarists as common culture. Plath's role and progress as a poet is likewise reflected in the sequence.
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'The Bee Meeting' is the first poem in the 'Bee Poems' sequence, five poems Sylvia Plath wrote in October 1962.
The poems are seen as an exploration into identity via poetical metaphor, the hive as a mind, the bees as critical elements within society, the queen bee as speaker (as the poet herself) and the apiarists as common culture. Plath's role and progress as a poet is likewise reflected in the sequence.
Sylvia Plath was at a crossroads in her life around the time she wrote this poem. Separated from her husband, English poet Ted Hughes, and busy mother of two children, she had to find a way of expressing her inner anxieties and disturbed feelings
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