plath Flashcards
larkin called plath a …
‘horror poet’
what did larkin see plath’s subject matter as …
insanity, horror, terror’
freedman states that ‘plath’s use of the mirror is a symbol of …
female passivity
dobbs states that plath felt …
‘domestic entrapment as a wife and mother’
in daddy, sinfield states that ‘jews and women, both, have been among the victims of …
institutionalised violence in western civilisation
kendall states that ‘plath’s personal cycle is driven by the larger and inescapable cycle of historical violence, it offers …
no solution to the violence because there is no solution
kenner says that edge is a poem which has ‘ceased …
trying to please the reader
rosenthal said that plath saw herself as a …
‘skilled suicide artist’
alverez said that daddy
‘is a love poem’
malcolm said that tulips is a …
hymn to the death wish
plath said she found in her son a ‘beauty which, while it may not ward off the world’s evil …
does redeem her share of it’
nick and the candlestick
sagar said that ‘hughes is a wudwo in all his poems ..
asking questions of the world in which he finds himself
muir says that hughes’ poetry is …
‘the poetry of violence’
muir says that the jaguar embodies …
‘admirable violence’
hughes said that the crow poems are bleakly symbolic of civilisation as …
‘it might be invented after the holocaust’
