the speaker dramatizes the ideology that only women who bear children fulfill their destiny, and the virgin dying without progeny dies sour as a lemon, "[w]orm-husbanded, yet no woman." Plath's life and work were touted by the mid-20th century feminists as an example of the brilliant woman undercut by the patriarchy, yet this poem offers a stance that remains at odds with that anti-patriarchal view of the poet.from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Sylvia Plath's Two Sisters of Persephone
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