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Sylvia Plath Self Transformation Analysis

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American literature takes a new turn in the seventeenth century in a search for the ideal, a search lighted and directed by hope and expectation. Sylvia Plath is reckoned as a very important poet of American literature. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1982. Her poetry is evasive, intriguing, intelligent and intense. Plunging deeper in her psyche, one finds her to be a poet of extraordinary positive urge. A person as ambiguous and self-contradictory as Sylvia Plath can hardly be fitted into a single critical jargon or simple formula. Attempt has been made in this paper entitled “Art as a source of Self Transformation – A Study of Sylvia Plath’s Poetry” to analyse the important aspects of her poetic being, from its nascent source to full maturity and explores Plath’s struggle for existence. It analyses the constant echo of her life and personality in her creative work. The diverse channels of her theme and art, ranging from psyche and spiritual bearings contribute a lot to shape her poetic career. KEY WORDS: Art as a Source of Self Transformation Sylvia Plath’s poetry is deeply personal, but to her experience should not be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking narcissistic …show more content…

Her individualism had yet to find path for her idiosyncrasies and poignant personal experiences. As a teenager she had learnt the brute realities of life and experienced all the ghastly shadows, yet she hated to be a defeatist. Her immense urge for life found its apt voice in the poem. While looking at the nature’s renovative power, her young heart was filled up with a bright new hope that setting of the sun is but a geographical myth. As bunches of the new leaves sprout up with hopeful anticipation with the enlivening shower, there is also hope for the transiently finished mortal to be

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