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1See, for example, Gayle Wurst's Voice and Vision (202); Deryn Rees-Jones' “Liberty Belles and Founding Fathers: Sylvia Plath's The Colossus” (276–77); and “Poet as Daughter, or Father as Muse?” chapter 4 in Robyn Marsack's Sylvia Plath.
2A similar feminist interrogation of the concept of the muse may be found in the Introduction to Francine Prose's The Lives of the Muses.
3The image of the blood-sucking vampire/father appears in “Daddy”; the image of the sunken father surfacing appears in “Full Fathom Five”; and the father is associated with blackness in “Man in Black,” “Little Fugue,” and “Daddy.”
4A useful exploration of this subject may be found in “Sylvia Plath: Occultism as Source and Symptom,” chapter 6 in Timothy Materer's Modernist Alchemy.