Vacating the homogeneity of the socio-political: Sylvia Plath and the disruption of 'Confessional poetry'

Mack analyzes Plath's poetry to illuminate how she uses poetry to express the trauma of her childhood. Drawing on psychoanalysis, he shows how Plath uses the trope of the cruel Nazi to convey her feeling of terror at what cannot be described. Mack's analysis casts light on Plath's use of the Nazi imagery to express the ultimate terrror, the trauma that evades language