Sylvia Plath poetry
In this dissertation I shall be looking at the poetry of Sylvia Plath written after 1959 and the common problems that occur when reading it. I shall show that the poetry of Sylvia Plath has many different meanings, not just the common interpretation that everything she wrote was about physical and mental atrophy.Critics and readers alike commonly suggest that Plath’s poetry is direct evidence of her mental instability, and that her poetry leaves a set of clues leading directly to her suicide. The problem is, if we are to accept this sort of judgement on her work and believe that the poetry is, in this sense, directly autobiographical, what then happens to the poetry? Poetry by definition is a superior form of creativity in writing, not a string of self-indulgent, autobiographical ramblings. When we label Plath’s work as such, it loses its value as art and disappears as poetry. In this dissertation I shall attempt to refute this singular judgement on Plath's poetry by demonstrating varied interpretations of her most famous poems. I shall do this by locating and discussing her prime influences, examining her reasons for extremity and her motivations. In chapter one I shall demonstrate a line of analysis wh
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Approximate Pages = 41 (250 words per page double spaced)
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