The Bee God

Question 1

First

Answer 1

Childhood trauma of fathers death repedelty uses “daddy” not face inner turmoil

Question 2

Second

Answer 2

Establishes connection with Plath and concealments “[her] veils, [her] gloves” alluding to past poems

Question 3

Third

Answer 3

internal struggle seen as she only “wanted the honey” that Hughes couldn’t give her due to her emotions, the bees “soared over the housetop and down” symbolic of Sylvia’s loss of control

Question 4

Fourth

Answer 4

Influence Otto had on Plath, Otto metaphorically holding him down in the “bottom of the well” Plath is lost in her own despair.