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UNIVERSAL VALUES IN THE POETRY OF SYLVIA PLATH

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Date Issued:
1982
Summary:
The generic qualities in the poetry of Sylvia Plath can be seen in all four volumes of her work. All of her poetry shows a progression and a development. The Colossus poems have a logical appeal with a forthright form and an orderly unfolding. The transitional poems of Crossing the Water and Winter Trees are more in troverted and confessional in their style. Finally, the poetry of Ariel is fragmentary and hallucinatory. These three kinds of poetic effects make up the personality or "personal style" of Sylvia Plath. All of Sylvia Plath's poetry is believable and coherent. Her themes are of universal value in that they not only authenticate the life of Sylvia Plath, but they capture the human emotions true to all mankind.
Title: UNIVERSAL VALUES IN THE POETRY OF SYLVIA PLATH.
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Name(s): CONNOLLY, PATTY BARNHILL.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Pearce, Howard D., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1982
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 59 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The generic qualities in the poetry of Sylvia Plath can be seen in all four volumes of her work. All of her poetry shows a progression and a development. The Colossus poems have a logical appeal with a forthright form and an orderly unfolding. The transitional poems of Crossing the Water and Winter Trees are more in troverted and confessional in their style. Finally, the poetry of Ariel is fragmentary and hallucinatory. These three kinds of poetic effects make up the personality or "personal style" of Sylvia Plath. All of Sylvia Plath's poetry is believable and coherent. Her themes are of universal value in that they not only authenticate the life of Sylvia Plath, but they capture the human emotions true to all mankind.
Identifier: 14106 (digitool), FADT14106 (IID), fau:10920 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1982.
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia--Criticism and interpretation
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