"Something in me said, now, you must see this": Reconciliation of Death and "the empty benches of memory" in Sylvia Plath's "Berck-Plage"

Maeve O'Brien, University of Ulster

Maeve O'Brien is a final-year Ph.D student based at the University of Ulster. Her thesis is tentatively entitled, "Emerging voices: Responses to silence in the work of Sylvia Plath." Maeve maintains The Plath Diaries blog (http://theplathdiaries.blogspot.com) and has previously published an article in Plath Profiles 4.