It was a time when women fought for their rights and began to change the way men treated them as a gender. Before then, a woman was expected to marry young, have children, dedicate her life to domestic work, and obey her husband's commands. The 60s are when women finally begin to express their opinion and defend their rights. Although the issues addressed in the two poems are completely different, they both convey the same message. Plath and Livesay both express different issues about gender equality in a relationship from a different perspective. Plath is much more aggressive in approaching the subject, while Livesay is much more subtle. Both authors lived completely different lives, so their opinions on the same topic emerge differently, with varying degrees of aggressiveness. Plath expresses her thoughts on female identity with much more anger because she speaks from her personal experiences. Plath has a lot more to say than Livesay because she lived a hard life from the time of her father's death until the day she committed suicide. Plath's anger towards men caused her negative and aggressive feelings to be reflected in her poetry. At the time Plath wrote this poem, she was separated from her husband due to an affair, which