Tag: Sylvia Plath
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Confessional Poetics – Sylvia Plath
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Confessional poetry involves turning inward, revealing difficult truths, loss, mental illness, and family trauma. Plath’s life gave her abundant raw material. Her early loss of her father, her struggles with depression and suicide, her fraught marriage, and the pressures of identity as a woman and mother all show up in vivid, sometimes metaphorical scenes in…
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The Tragic Tale of Poet Sylvia Plath
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Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath This poem by Sylvia Plath is a very vulnerable one; it reveals some deep secrets and truths about the poet that most would not be willing to share and is a classic example of Confessional poetry. In lines 34-39, Plath describes the two times she faced a near-death experience. She…
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The Authenticness of Sylvia Plath
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Sylvia Plath was one of the most influential and celebrated poets of the 20th century. Her work has been tied heavily to the Confessional movement and she is widely regarded with being a large contributor to this post war type of poetry where poets started to use their own trauma and emotional anguish as a…