The Value of Moon Myth in Sylvia Plaths Poetry

The present study aims at studying the moon myth in Sylvia Plath s poetry. The presence of the moon in her early poetry was associated with nature according to her mood, emotions and senses. Plath had used Robert Graves s The White Goddess myth as her Moon –Muse to represent sterility, barrenness, rivalry, cruelty and indifference in her late poetry. The moon myth was always female and had a great connection to Plath s personal life as female to represent her as a young girl, wife, pregnant woman, and mother, then after separation from her husband Ted Hughes.