Wintering

1) An elegiac poem about her dad.
Poet, Sylvia Plath was only eight years old when her father, Otto Plath, died unexpectedly from complications to diabetes. From the book, Ariel The Restored Edition, he was “an internationally known authority on bees” and in which appears four poems written by Sylvia Plath and dedicated to bees and beekeeping. The tone of the poem, Wintering, is elegiac and sorrowful. She never truly and fully grieved the death of her father, a profound loss for Sylvia. In the poem, the speaker (Sylvia) is in the cellar where the bee honey is kept during the long, dark, and cold winter.

2) Role of women in society.