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Sylvia Plath's Poetry: Feminine Perfection
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"Almost all of Sylvia Plath's poems seem to be written by a perfectionist.", writes Marcia Dahlman in Being Perfect. Plath transmutes the domestic and the ordinary into the hallucinatory, the utterly strange. Her revision of the romantic ego dramatizes its tendency toward disproportion and excess, ....
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....hering; this added to Sylvia Plath's self-doubt in her choice of a career. By the time she entered college on a scholarship in 1950 she already had an impressive list of publications, and while at college she wrote over four hundred poems. During the summer following her junior year at college, Plath nearly succeeded in killing herself by swallowing sleeping pills. In her poem "Daddy" she states, "At twenty I tried to die" (58).
After a period of recovery involving electroshock and psychothera.... |
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