ENGL 3550 Lecture Notes - Sylvia Plath, Confessional Poetry, Enjambment
18 Mar 2013
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Writing the self into being in poetry and fiction. Similarities lady lazarus : out of the ash i rise with my red hair the bell jar: i am, i am , i am. (166) i am, i am, i am. (256) Woman undergoes multiple deaths and re-births, adopts multiple identities. Woman for whom pain and power closely related. Free verse: poetry which does not conform to any metrical pattern, but uses line divisions which shape the rhythms of the language for specific ends. Irregular rhyme, perfect (again/ten) to slant (ten/skin, foot/weight) Enjambment (where a ling or stanza runs into the next) e. g. one year in every ten i manage it) (layered and intensified forms of objectification: female personae embody and voice experience of exposure, death, rebirth) Compression, intensity (possible interpretation of some effects and implications) Open(complete the stanza to the next stanza) or closed stanza (a full stop at the end of the triplet e. g. a period)
