Nature in “The Collosus” of Sylvia Plath

Abstract

Sylvia Plath is an immortal figure in American Female Poetic Universe. Her poems have raised the issues of human existence specifically female existence. Her poetic volumes depict her struggle for her existence. Her second poetic volume “The Collosus” portrays the position of the self against the universe and the others. Most of the poems in “The Collosus” are nature poems in the sense that the imagery is drawn from the poet's apprehension of the natural universe. Nature is depicted as bringing peril and threat to the self. Like existentialists, Plath realizes that the self is intelligible only when decorated with the external realities. A longing for self transformation and rebirth also find expression in this poetic volume. Depiction of natural objects with original colors of life have made her poetry unique.

Key words: immortal, existence, apprehension, existentialist, transformation etc.