English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Dramatic Monologue
10 Mar 2016
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She is a confessional poet: what she is wriing about is her own life. Poet married to another poet (ted hughes: he was unfaithful, brought her much distress. She ended up killing herself: her poems are some of the best records of unhappiness we have. Poem about various and repeated atempt to kill herself. Does the speaker see suicide as something wrong: may be a creaive act for her. What it means to be sill alive ater trying to kill yourself. Who is the witness of this poem: us to some degree. Anger largely about and towards an absent father. This poem is the expression of that anger. Her father doesn"t seem like the daddy of this poem at all. Line 48: is she suggesing that there is a desire at work to be a vicim: if that"s true could be the darkest admission, we have.
