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Titill: 
  • Titill er á ensku A Poet of the Personal: A Study of the Theme of Death in Sylvia Plath‘s Ariel
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    Death is one of the significant and recurrent themes in the poetry of Sylvia Plath but it is nowhere more present, powerful and intimate than in her late poems, written in the months prior to her suicide and published posthumously in the book Ariel. The poems are confessional in nature, exploring Plath’s innermost emotions and private subject matters with a menacing focus on death. The imagery is explicit and intense and leaves a haunting impression but most intriguing is Plath’s dualistic portrayal of death. In these poems, in a somewhat contradicting manner, death is represented both as a rebirth or renewal, sometimes transcending, and as the more traditional, ominous and melancholic end of all ends. The nature of the poems mark a notable change in Plath’s writing-style which, in Ariel, she turns on its head moving away from the universal to the entirely intimate and private in her subjects. The confessional style of expression of topics such as death, suicide, sexuality and mental illness, which Plath explores in Ariel and were considered taboo in her time, is characteristic of the literature movement of confessional poetry that emerged in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s and owes its origin, partly, to Plath’s work. The all-encompassing theme of death and its twofold nature denotes Plath’s private struggle with mental illness and suicidal tendencies at the time of Ariel’s conception. Ariel marks the transfiguration of Plath’s poetry and establishes her as a poet of the personal and author of confessional poetry. The focus of this essay is to explore the theme of death in selected poems from Ariel by analyzing its representation with the objective of exposing its dual essence and to assert the relevance of Ariel as an instigating work tying Plath to the literature movement of confessional poetry.

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  • 16.1.2017
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  • http://hdl.handle.net/1946/26604


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