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SYLVIA PLATH'S POETRY AS ARTIFACT: TWO-DIMENSIONALITY AND EFFECTS

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1980
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This study explores the two-dimensionality and artistlC distancing present within Sylvia Plath's poetry contained in Crossing the Water, Winter Trees, and Ariel. Plath's poetry inevitably presents the conflict inherent in the art versus life dichotomy; her poetry tends toward the reflexive, as its metaphors mirror poetry as the poetry mirrors life. Two-dimensional images recur, calling to mind the power of the artistic, as mirrors, photographs, paintings, silhouettes, outlines, and the black letter on the white page fairly inundate her works. In Plath's poetry, the reader finds a disclosure of poetry, a definition of poetry, and a reaffirmation of the supremacy of the imagination. Plath speaks to an elite audience; hers is a cry to and for the intellectual in a world of violence and chaos; here is the desperately needed source of pleasure for those who delight in the original metaphor, who long for the hunt for the similar within those things ostensibly dissimilar.
Title: SYLVIA PLATH'S POETRY AS ARTIFACT: TWO-DIMENSIONALITY AND EFFECTS.
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Name(s): QUEENAN, DEBORAH CLARK.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Pearce, Howard D., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1980
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 123 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This study explores the two-dimensionality and artistlC distancing present within Sylvia Plath's poetry contained in Crossing the Water, Winter Trees, and Ariel. Plath's poetry inevitably presents the conflict inherent in the art versus life dichotomy; her poetry tends toward the reflexive, as its metaphors mirror poetry as the poetry mirrors life. Two-dimensional images recur, calling to mind the power of the artistic, as mirrors, photographs, paintings, silhouettes, outlines, and the black letter on the white page fairly inundate her works. In Plath's poetry, the reader finds a disclosure of poetry, a definition of poetry, and a reaffirmation of the supremacy of the imagination. Plath speaks to an elite audience; hers is a cry to and for the intellectual in a world of violence and chaos; here is the desperately needed source of pleasure for those who delight in the original metaphor, who long for the hunt for the similar within those things ostensibly dissimilar.
Identifier: 14029 (digitool), FADT14029 (IID), fau:10846 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1980.
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia--Criticism and interpretation
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