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Sylvia Plath (Poetry Style (cathartic (poetry is thereaputic), personal /…
Sylvia Plath
Poetry Style
personal / intimate / powerful / intense
striking / dark / depressing/ disturbing
thought provking
origional / authrntic
dreamlike suurreal quality
carefully composed + beutifully phrased
poised between celebration /love + despair
too honest / no sugar coating
cathartic
poetry is thereaputic
leaves sinister effect
personal experience & reflective insight
Exploration States of Mind
fustration + suffering
despair + desire + disturbing
fear of effacement + annihilation + old age
facinated by her mental health
confinement / is temporary
depression everchanging
Inability to experience life
absence of colour
conflicting love and despair
Poetic tech. creats style
disturbing /Vivid / evoctive imagery
entrapment + release = escapism
percise language
onomatopeic
appeals to senses
brings ... to life
percision + detailed descriptions heavy in emotion
superlatives = fusration
motifs
nature , florals
innocent pure
colours + darkness
symbol of blood , red
tone
seeped in -anguish , pain , agnoy, darkness , despair , sinister
autobiographical poet , "I"
confessional & personal poet
stream of consciousness effect
metaphors & simile
show the intensity of her thoughts
Relationships
mother + child
hope + love
post partam depression
estragement
fear of loosing self image + role of motherhood
wishes her childreen vibrant life she cannot enjoy
marriage to Ted Huges
deep intimate love runied
divorce + infidelity
1963 commited sucide
Mutilayered meanings
face value
metphorically/ symbolic
Anything positive she see's darkness in it