Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath became a highly acclaimed poet. Many consider her to be a feminist, who has a husband-wife relationship with her father. Sylvia Plath was a depressed and tormented person throughout her life and wrote many poems. His poems consist of a variety of topics reflecting his depression, bees, his father, and several events in his life. Most of these poems contain a wide range of imagery needed to help portray his message. In most of her poems Sylvia Plath gives someone or something a sense of power or helplessness. Plath gives the insects a sense of helplessness in the poems titled The Swarm, Stings, and The Colossus because of the types of comparisons that are made and the feelings towards the speaker in the poems. In Stings, the speaker is the bee. Sylvia Plath gives the bee a sense of helplessness, because of what the speaker says. In stanza 5, lives 22-25, the poem states, "Dear drudge, I am no drudge, though for years I have eaten dust and dried dishes with my thick hair." Here the bee is given a sense of uselessness because the b...