Plath

Question 1

Uroff in self

Answer 1

Self in Plath’s poems = weak and submissive attempts to separate herself from inner feelings

Hughes= represents a witness to elemental power in control

Question 2

Arid

Answer 2

She presents the dangers of a man made world

Question 3

Bleake

Answer 3

Plath’s long lines are often sculpted by the movement of breath

Question 4

Lindberg

Answer 4

Landscapes serve as mirrors for herself. She never seems to be quite at home

Question 5

Tulips - Margaret Dickie

Answer 5

The manipulative mind must control its most terrifying experience

Question 6

Barbara Hardy (tulips)

Answer 6

Hateful emblems of cruel spring and presents from the healthy world that wants her back

Question 7

Tulips- Jeannine Dobbs

Answer 7

Plath wants to reject the tulips as she wants to reject the trappings of her family and relationship

Question 8

Richard Grey - Tulips

Answer 8

Hidden rich melody

Question 9

Daddy - Robert Philips

Answer 9

She dramatises the war in her soul

Question 10

Jon Rosenblatt - Daddy

Answer 10

The historical references allow her to dramatise her rebellion against the oppressive father

Question 11

Eileen M.Arid - daddy

Answer 11

Spoken by a girl with an Electra complex

The two strains (part Jewish mother and German father) marry and paralyse each other

Question 12

Robert Philips - tulips

Answer 12

The most nakedly confessional poem ever written

Question 13

Wuthering heights

Brita Lindbergseyersted

Answer 13

Images of the landscape are consistently turned into metaphors for the human feeling of being insignificant and exposed

Question 14

Wuthering heights

Janice Markey

Answer 14

Uniformly bleak and negative

Question 15

Night shift

Janice Markey

Answer 15

Technology serves as a buffer between us and nature a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience

Feeling that community has been deeply eroded by consumption.

Question 16

The stones

Janice markey

Answer 16

Toying with the idea of rejecting the world

Question 17

The stones

Alvarez

Answer 17

Passive tone. She appears to be gambling with life and holds little concern for winning or losing

Question 18

Wuthering heights can be seen as….. what does this link to for Hughes

Answer 18

Journey of realisation after feeling like she belongs to a different currency realises still shares common ground with humanity (realisation of importance and value of family)

Link to Hughes discovery of inner self.

Both realise self = unique and that should be cherished not disconnected

Question 19

Bell jar

Answer 19

I feel like a race horse in a world without tracks

Question 20

Betty Friedan

Answer 20

Return to the Victorian conceptualisation of women as innocent creatures made for reproduction and submission after WW2 influenced the presumption it was a female’s biological destiny to be a mother.

Question 21

Plath aged 20 (morning song link)

Answer 21

Graduate school and travel abroad are not going to be stymied by any squealing, breastfed brats.

Question 22

Janice markey

Answer 22

There are no ready made connections

Question 23

Elizabeth Hardwick

Answer 23

Her work is brutal like a smash of a fist and sometimes it is also mean in it’s feeling

Question 24

Elizabeth Hardwick

Answer 24

There is a particular remoteness about Plath

Question 25

Uroff

Answer 25

Her poems show “the mind confronting its own suffering trying to control that by which it feels controlled”

Question 26

Alvarez

Answer 26

If the poems are despairing vengeful and destructive they are at the same time tender and usually clever

Question 27

Margaret Rees

Answer 27

She strips away he polite veneer letting her writing express elemental forces and primeval fears

She hinted st the tensions hovering just beneath the surface of the America way of life post war period

Question 28

Janice markey

Answer 28

Plath regarded death as a means for rebirth and purification