ENG364Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Sylvia Plath, Headscarf, Psychoanalysis
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Eng364 lecture 14: sylvia plath & confessional literature (01-22-20) Confessional poetry: domesticated modernism after ts eliot impersonal, experiential style, emphasis on psychanalysis, examining fodder for dreams and feelings, poetry as form of therapy session, female writers examined previously unacknowledged subjects like menstruation, abortion, miscarriage. Interpretation of plath"s poems often influenced by knowledge of her suicide. Mushrooms (1959: mushrooms appear almost out of nothing overnight, springing up after being crushed, poem told from voice of mushrooms. Implication that mushrooms will outlive other species, rebelling against nature: plays on feelings of civil rights, anti-war, and feminist movements. Conceit = sustained metaphor: biblical reference ironic but also ideological, gothic imagery grotesque imagery of mushrooms everywhere. Cut (1962: plays with sound of language, differences between british and american dialects. What a thrill-- --breaks narrator out of drudgery of housework, making her feel alive ick factor gruesome imagery of finger being sliced.
