Jan Mock SP and TH Flashcards
Plath criticism nature
’ nature as a vehicle for Plath’s sensibility’- Vendler
Plath criticism religion
‘instead of Christian paraphernalia, the moon is worshipped- kinship’ - Kendall
Plath criticism rebirth
’ problem of rebirth and transcendence’- Kroll
Plath criticism depression
“Owls talons clenching at my heart”- 1 month before death Plath
Hughes criticism violence
violence ‘essential and universal condition of life’ - Rawson
Hughes criticism crisis
’ crisis is the catalyst’ - Brandes
Hughes criticism poems
“I think of poems as a sort of animal”- Hughes
Hughes identity
“In capturing them he was also capturing himself”- Morrison
religion and spirituality points
- through nature
- rejects narrator
- desperately searched for
poetic process points and poems
- impossible to capture- TMATYT and 2nd Jaguar
- processes feelings- 2nd glance, Tulips
- connection to nature- Wuthering H, thought fox
Plath poetic inspiration context
- confessional
- Sexton
Hughes poetic inspiration context
- Romantic without sentimentality
- Keats, Yeats
Hughes shamanism and crows context
- Studied anthropology
- saw poets as shamans of life
- dreams of animal spirits in youth
- crows in despair of Wevill and Plath death
Hughes relationship to nature context
- RAF
- Yorkshire and north
- fishing Mytholmroyd
Plath relationship to nature context
- trans atlantic
- anguish in devon and yorkshire
identity points
- as an observer
- powerful
- vulnerable
Plath gender and sexuality context
- 50s housewife
- anguish as a mother
- felt sexually trapped
- Lacan
power points and poems
- given narrator through observation- ariel
- in nature
- through breaking boundaries and transgressing- snowdrop and ariel
Plath ariel context
- airy spirit eventually released by Prospero in The Tempest
- the name of a horse that Plath used to ride in Devon
new life points
- bringing violence and terror
- rejuvenation and jubilant
- essential for life
new life poems
- bringing violence and terror- elm, thistles
- rejuvenation and jubilant- ariel, thought fox
- essential for life- october sun, munich mannequins
violence points
- inherent in nature
- invasive and relentless
- through opression
- generational
death points
- hopeless
- peaceful
- natural- inherent in nature
Plath death context
- suicide 1963
- barrage of literary rejections and her husband’s infidelity
- multiple attempts
pain and suffering points
- through hopelessness and loneliness
- through entrapment
- generational- through children
- inherent in nature
Plath father context
- German scientist, FBI’s investigation for pro-German sympathies during World War I
- leg amputated
