Fierce Feminist Poets You Need to Know
From the Page to the Protest
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Poetry is powerful. It captures emotions, tells stories and can even roar louder than a cry.
I think, feminist poetry is a reminder for us that fierce voices have always existed.
Here’s a glimpse of the lives and legacies of a few poets —who dared to write about topics, what society often whispered about.
Sylvia Plath: The Confessional Firecracker
Since I first read Sylvia Plath, it felt like her words were raw, unfiltered and so deep that they almost felt intrusive.
Plath’s feminist voice is unmistakable in her works like Lady Lazarus, where she boldly declares,
“I rise with my red hair, and I eat men like air.”
There, she wasn’t just writing about herself. Rather, she was writing for every woman who was locked into a life they didn’t choose.
