https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/24692921.2021.1947081<\/a><\/h2>\nThis article discusses Sylvia Plath\u2019s overlooked juvenilia poems and contextualizes them in postwar American culture. The fairy tales were significant cultural products during the 1950s, that also continue to define the culture today through Disney\u2019s adaptations. Plath loved Grimms\u2019 tales; several of her poems show direct engagement with tales. The first half of my article looks at Plath\u2019s juvenilia poems and their reimagination of fairy-tale narratives. For Plath, the fairy tales functioned as a way to retell her life events. Whilst, the second part of my research uses a psychoanalytical approach to link \u201cmomism\u201d in postwar America with the evil witch figure. By close-reading \u201cThe Disquieting Muses\u201d poem, I demonstrate Plath\u2019s engagement with the ambiguous mother whose food, similar to the witch in \u201cHansel and Gretel\u201d, function to deceive the children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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